Missing the point

An amusing moment for Christmas

Often when I am preaching and want to illustrate the idea of ‘missing the point’, I turn to an old home video from someone who travelled to Cape Canaveral to watch an Apollo rocket launch. At the last moment, as the ground shook and the sky blurred with heat haze, it became apparent that they had trained their camera on a rocket which was not being launched, and they had spectacularly missed the point. If I ever need a Christmas illustration of the same thing, I reckon I might use the one below:

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cCXPjS14i8&w=420&h=315]

One thought on “Missing the point

  1. It’s too funny! It’s the kind of thing I would do! Then again in the past I have scraped my (ex)housemate’s car then scrapped mine to save her time. (I guess that was on purpose rather than by accident lol)