Luncheon Part II

Sorry that I left you hanging. We were in St. Louis all weekend with no internet access.

The story Brock told at the luncheon was this:
A few years ago, Brock and I were sitting on the beach in Pensacola, FL at around dusk. We watched as a couple of twenty something aged people went into the water with their clothes on. They were splashing around and stuff.

Then, a guy walked in front of us and looked at the couple in the water and then looked at us. The guy in the ocean was waving his hands at the guy walking by. Brock thought they knew him, but I heard them screaming "Help!" The guy only paused to look and then kept on walking. Brock, on the other hand, went into the water.

The couple didn't look like they were in trouble. They were just standing there in the water. However, we both figured that maybe they were drunk and having trouble getting to shore.

When Brock reached them in the water, the girl was already in stage 2 of drowning meaning she was bobbing up and down. So, Brock picked her up and the guy hung onto his arm. Brock was still confused as to why they were having so much difficulty until he turned around to go to the shore. They were caught in the worst riptide that I've ever heard of. He said the whole 5 foot wall of water was pushing them out to sea.

Brock looks at me on the shore and says very seriously, "Go get help." My adrenaline shot thru the roof! I still didn't know what was going on except that something was going very wrong. I ran up the first steps that I could find screaming for help. There was a bar at the pool area at the top of the stairs. All of the men sitting at the bar started pulling off their watches and following me.

By the time we got to Brock and the couple, they were just approaching the shore. Once they got onto the sand, they all fell down exhausted. In fact, Brock was so worn out that he went to sleep that night at 8:30 and slept all night long.

That evening, Brock saved two people's lives. The couple said that they were so close to drowning.

At this point, Brock looked at the crowd of business people and said that there were three types of people in the story. One is the person in need; one is the person who looked but didn't do anything about it; and the other is the person that actually did something to help the people in need. He said that we already know that we have several in need, so which one of the other two are you? Will you just stay on the shore and watch, or will you actually do something to help people?