Read this article today Portis pays $18,000 to settle dispute over whether or not he can wear his preferred number on his jersey! Okay, I can understand, well no I can’t. It’s a number, pick another one! Guess I just can’t relate since I was never big in organized sports my entire childhood. I think a couple of seasons of baseball and one season of football in 3rd grade.
Sometimes people in the church need to be smacked around too. Was in my dad’s church a couple of Sunday nights ago and wanted to turn around and try to “heal” someone with a bip across their forehead. Our general church is having there quadrennial assembly in Indianapolis later this month. For this big event there are delegates that come from all over the world. Obviously then that includes people from places slightly less affluent than the wonderful USofA. Because of this, there is a need for people in the local church to sponsor one of the delegates and provide one meal for them. Now the goal is to have one meal a day sponsored for them, but one person/family isn’t expected to do that but it would be welcomed.
Now, this old guy a few pews back from me spoke up and said, “Well don’t the hotels they’re staying at provide a continental breakfast or something?”. Arrggh!! That’s when I should have slowly stood up, walked back a couple of pews and smacked him across the head.
#1 it’s not the Marriott’s job to minister to members of our own church family for us.
#2 Since one meal is provided, that would still have only been two meals a day for them. When’s the last time this guy ate only two meals because he had no other options?
#3 You spoiled little American, no wonder some people in foreign countries don’t have the best things to say about us. We don’t even take care of our own “family” (the church), how much do they expect us to be nice to them?
But that’s just my $.02
Chris says
So how do you really feel?!
Chris says
So how do you really feel?!