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Parables: Late Night in ER
Posted on Monday, April 30 @ 00:14:50 EDT
Topic: Parables
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Jesus used stories that had a point. They were interesting, biting, and thoughtful. At Church Challenge, we will occassionally do the same through either writing our own or "modernizing" one of Jesus' for the world today.
Once a while back, a black man was heading through the Bronx toward Yankees Stadium one wintry evening. As he was walking along the sidewalk, several Bloods surrounded him then jumped him, beat him with baseball bats, and robbed him (taking everything except his pants, leaving him a bleeding mess at the edge of Crotona Park. It happened that a few hours later, the pastor of the local Baptist church drove by in a new Lincoln. Upon seeing the man in his wretched, half-frozen condition, he immediately sped on.
Not long after, an elder of a black Pentecostal church was also driving by in his Honda, and when he saw the man, he too got out of there. A while later, a member of the Ku Klux Klan was driving his old Ford pickup along the same route. Some movement caught his attention, and then he saw the bloody, beat up man. He felt compassion toward the man, put makeshift splints on the man's arms and legs, and then carefully laid him in the truck bed, and drove him to North Central Bronx Hospital. Since the man didn't have any insurance, the KKK member gave the hospital a thick wad of bills and told them that if that didn't cover the cost, he'd leave his credit card number as well.
Now tell me again.. who said, "To those that know what is right and don't do it, that is sin."
-- Faithful
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Re: Late Night in ER (Score: 1)
by Analytical on Monday, April 30 @ 17:41:58 EDT
| BIG CHURCH SYNDROME
There once was a man that lived in suburbia America with a great job, three kids, a wonderful wife, and an income of $300,000 a year. He had investments in IRA's, CD's, and mutual funds. He was considered a good man in his town and in his church. His pastor especially loved him because he gave $10,000 dollars to the building fund and was one of the top tither's in the church. This man is on the church board, teaches Sunday school (even though he is gone half the year on business), and his wife somehow does special music once a month.
There is also a single mother that goes to this same church and lives in the same town. She works nights as a janitor at Wal-Mart just to support her two kids who are in elementary school. She is faithful every Sunday at church, gives all the money she has left over every week to the church, after paying the bills and buying food. It doesn't seem like much compared to the man but is way over the 10% tithe minimum. She is also involved heavily in her community. She is at every prayer meeting, every revival service, and every outreach the church commits to.
One Sunday morning, the church decides to put up a huge plaque in the lobby to recognize the most generous and faithful givers. The man is number one on the list and the woman's name appears nowhere.
Can it be? Can the church be heading in the wrong direction? How can a lesson that was taught so clearly by Jesus be completely manipulated by the church today? |
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