Apologies to Wimber for ripping off his line but I love it so much that I had to pinch it. This morning's church service was something a bit different. While all of the respectable members of the congregation heard an inspiring message, anybody who wanted to get out there and be a bit evangelistic (ie – youth) was out handing out light-bulbs. Now this whole servant-evangelism thing is certainly not new to me but I'd never actually done stuff where we were going up to people's homes. And I was (to be brutally honest) a bit freaked out. I'm not someone who likes going up to people I don't know. I don't even really like going up to receptionists in offices (wow – didn't think this was going to get so deep and revealing).
But as soon as the first person took a light-globe, it was on! (edit – forgive the completely unintentional pun) I loved it. LOVED IT. There's something deeply exciting about being a positive Jesus light in someone's life. We had one person who wants to bring their kids along to our kids programs. We had another who tried to give us a donation. And we had one family who not only needed light-globes, they needed food. So I popped around later with some groceries.
Afterwards, all I could think of was: "this is a big part of what it's all about". So there you are ladies and gentleman, the meat is on the street.