If you really want to support the good work Chick-fil-a does with their camps and college scholarships and marriage retreats, take the money you would have spent on your meal and donate it directly to the Winshape Foundation. Prove to your gay co-worker you’re not one of “those Christians.” Eat lunch with him or her and don’t attempt to convert them to heterosexuality. Heck, go buy Chick-fil-a for you both and then spend some time in fellowship with someone who knows what it means to be lonely. Take lunch to a shut-in member of your church. Ask them questions and be genuinely interested in their life. Let them pick the place and you pick up the check. Invite an unbelieving co-worker to join you for lunch. On Wednesday, take Jesus to those who are not invited to Chick-fil-a. Instead of taking a conservative/Republican/evangelical stance about the Great Chicken Debate, stoop in humble service and meet a marginalized person where they are. Perhaps a better way of showing Christ to a watching world will be to do the exact opposite of what “everyone else” will be doing on Wednesday. They will expect you to exclude them and go with all the other Christians to Eat More Chikn together. The lost around you are going to expect you to be one of “those Christians” on Wednesday. Jesus invited the marginalized to dine with Him. One thing I’m sure Jesus would never have done was go to a meal specifically held to remind “those people” just how marginalized they are. The Pharisees rejected Him, but the sinners loved Him. He ate with sinners to call them out of their sin. He ate with the Pharisees to call out their sin. They are “those people.” Jesus ate with both the Pharisees and with “those people.” They are on the outskirts, they are the marginalized. Those that Jesus describes, the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, are those that the Pharisees had declared unclean, unfit to worship with them. In the verses above, Jesus tells his host that the next time he has a party, he needs to invite the marginalized of his society. He met people at the dinner table, and we should, too. Tony said that you can trace Jesus’ path through Luke, and He is either on His way to a meal, at a meal, or leaving a meal. In the Gospels, the method of ministry Jesus used was breaking bread with people. I just haven’t been able to put words to my heart.īut tonight I heard Tony Merida bring a message from the Word about meals and hospitality, and it impressed upon me an urgent need to ask people to consider carefully your decision on Wednesday. I haven’t said much of anything about the Chick-fil-a kerfuffle. Whether it is the intent or not, the whole thing just feels like an “us vs. The fervor with which most are supporting the event gives away that their heart is more speaking out against homosexuality than it is speaking for our First Amendment rights to free speech. Lines are typically out the door to Dine-In and around the building to Drive-thru. I haven’t been able to put my finger on exactly why I have a problem with it, but I think it may be a collection of things.įor starters, anyone who has ever been to a Chick-fil-a at lunch knows that they are not lacking appreciation. The whole “Appreciate Chick-fil-a Day” that’s planned for this coming Wednesday isn’t sitting well with me. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just.” ~ Jesus, Luke 14:12-14 But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. “When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return and you be repaid.
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