To drive this point home this past Sunday I had a friend of mine (who was unknown by the people of our church) dress up as a homeless person and sit in front of our church's doors before our Sunday morning service.
After the service my goal was to bring him up in front of our church and to ask him questions seeing if our people did a good job of reaching out to an unseen individual. My prayer for Legacy Church is that we'd always be a church where ANYONE can come to learn and grow in their walk with Jesus.
Here were the results from our experiment on Sunday...………..
- He received around $50 from various individuals (both young and old) who offered to buy him a warm meal.
- One of our greeters sat with him for approximately a half an hour trying to minister to him and get him to join our church service.
- Overall, our people were warm and were encouraging to him as they arrived. My friend was expecting people to be skeptical or even negative about his presence but he was blown away by the friendliness and compassion of our church.
This past Sunday I can say that I was proud to be the pastor of Legacy Church! May this be a good visual reminder that true faith in Jesus is all about action and responding to the opportunities that He puts in our path!
"Then the King will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the creation of the world. For I was hungry, and you fed me. I was thirsty, and you gave me a drink. I was a stranger, and you invited me into your home. I was naked, and you gave me clothing. I was sick, and you cared for me. I was in prison, and you visited me.'" (Matthew 25:34-36)
