Community Kindness Makes A Difference

Some people are down on "Servant Evangelism". Some say, it is "buying" people to church. Some say it is too superficial to be called "evangelism". I say it is sharing God's love in a simple way.

The truth is that community kindness projects will not bring people to a church in droves. It does plant seeds that can overtime germinate into someone coming after they have been reached over and over again through other acts of kindness or mass marketing, but one single project will not bring a lot of people to your church, though you may see a few trickle in from time to time.

What it does do is put a smile on people's faces. This afternoon, a few of us from the Skyline family went out to share a little love in the Father's Day Cookie Blitz. We simply had about 500 bags of cookies complete with a Skyline card that some volunteers put together and we handed them out to men in our community with a simple, "Happy Father's Day!". No pushy invitation to church, no Roman road experience...just a simple gift and a "Happy Father's Day". Will it bring a bunch of new families to Skyline in the morning? I hope so, but maybe not. Let me share with you what it did do as evidence by this email we received just a little while ago.

"Don't know who it was, maybe you, maybe someone else but today while at Lowes in the parking lot someone came up to me with a couple of nicely wrapped cookies, gave them to me and said, "Have a good Fathers day".

I was having a bad day and that random act of kindness was greatly appreciate.
Sometimes the smallest deeds have the greatest impact.

Just wanted to say thank you."

I don't care what anyone says about "servant evangelism"...it makes a difference. Whatever the investment, it puts a smile on someone's face in the name of Jesus. In this case it made a big difference in this guy's life. GO GOD!!!!!!!