Duplicate Talks From a General Authority

Someone in the Bloggernacle complained (though I don't remember where or when) that a prominent General Authority had come and spoken to their congregation on two separate occasions and had given the same talk both times. This was seen as a great let down by the commenter. The comment was called to memory because of our own stake conference today.

While I don't know the specifics of that commenter's situation, it spurred a thought for me that may or may not apply to that particular case.

The desire to hear something new is, ironically, very old.

For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing. (Acts 17:21)

"Some new thing." I don't think Luke meant his description of the Athenians to be a compliment. Perhaps the appropriate response to the scenario described above isn't a condemnation of the GA for giving the same talk twice. Perhaps it is a condemnation of the congregation for needing the same talk twice. I stand rebuked.