Abimelech And Ilyich

Take a look at another biblical story for an example of this process; as the Book of Judges gives the audience of glimpse of exactly how bad the risky shift process can be. A story that may not be familiar to most is the story of Abimelech. The story goes as such, there was a death of a very prominent man of the people of Jerusalem; now this man had many sons, and of his sons would be our character Abimelech. The conflict in the story occurs when Abimelech wants to overthrow his brothers; now he doesn’t have the gall to do it alone, but when he gathers a group of people, he’s a little more willing to take this risk. This story occurs in the ninth chapter of the Book of Judges where we find that the mighty Gideon has passed away. We find
Abimelech wanted to be the man, and he wanted to be the man all by himself with no one to challenge his position. One would have loved for one of the people to step up and say Abimelech don’t do this, and the conflict be resolved; but that’s of course not how the story ends. The story continues on to the people actually follow Abimelech, and they attack and kill the brothers. The son of the concubine murders all of the sons of Gideon…with the exception of one, who made a stunning illustration to the masses about the events to come because of their poor decision to “make” Abimelech king. So, Abimelech is eventually anointed king of the people…by the people of course. Conversely, in an eerie turn of events, the same illustration made by the younger brother who escaped comes to fruition. Abimelech’s reign came to a terrible end and to top it all off, he was almost killed by a woman! The risky shift process, he started did have a reward in the big risk, but it ultimately cost him his life. The next group is very similar to risky shift as we move on to the individuals who exchange personal identity for group identity. Risky shift can unquestionably turn into polarization and when this occurs, people become daring because the dispersion of responsibility lessen the probability for person risk or negative consequences; basically, the person believes they are too low on the totem pole for consequences
Will conflict arise? Conflict in the coalition is very real and it happens more frequently than the Lord would like. Paul tells a tale where his team wasn’t necessarily on the same page and he wasn’t afraid to speak about it in one of his letters. In Galatians chapter 2, Paul goes into detail about an encounter he had with a fellow apostle; and not just any apostle either…the one and only Peter. The story goes that Peter was in Antioch fellowshipping with some gentiles; however when so Jews apparently showed up, our friend Peter wanted to distance himself from the gentiles. Since Paul didn’t think that this gesture was very Christ like, the conflict here is actually between Peter and