What Would Your Church Do?

A Longview, TX pastor wanted to find out if his messages were actually having an effect on the lives of his congregation, so he set up a little test.

Wanting to put his church members in the direct line of a person in need, he disguised himself as a stranger smelling strongly of alcohol and wandered around the church campus on a Sunday morning. His latest sermon series was called "Kingdom People" and he wanted to see if his words had made it out from behind the pulpit and into the lives of the people.

What happened? Some tried to ignore the man, but many went right up to him, offering food, shelter, prayer, and even an invitation to the church service. Sounds like this is one church that 'gets it.'

What would your church do?

Can You Love Your Enemies?

Found these online today at the Plow. Wish I would have had them this past week as we actually discussed Luke 10 and the good samaritan and how we are to love our neighbors. We talked about finding that one person, the one who really gets to you. the one who you would say you hate if you weren't a christian. i had our students picture that person, then passed out boxes of valentines candy and told them I wanted them to give them to that person this week at school. We'll see next week how it went. I'm planning on using these to facilitate more discussion.

Some questions; In general, do these detract from the idea of loving our neighbors by being too over the top? Is there an "over the top" when talking about loving others? Do you think these would fly in your church? Youthgroup? If not, why?