The Church and The Big Give

I don't know what you do on Sunday nights but our family's tradition is to come home from church and make biscuits and eggs for dinner. After we eat dinner we usually end up watching (and probably crying during) Extreme Makeover Home Edition. No one knows how to tell a story better than those guys. Well tonight a new show debuted called Oprah's Big Give. This show is similar to Extreme Makeover in that the hook is helping someone who is in a difficult situation simply for the sake of generosity. In an effort of full disclosure, I must confess I am skeptical of anything associated with Oprah because of the new age religion she espouses and the following she has but I wanted to watch this show to see what it was like...

The show is great! Each team of two people was given $5,000 and the name of a person who needs help. Each team competes to see who can "help" the most. Together the teams raised hundreds of thousands of dollars in 5 days towards helping by organizing fund raisers, getting communities together, etc.

Here's the question I want to ask... "Where is the church on this one?" I love the show and the people that are being helped but why can't the church get creative like this in it's efforts to give? In my humble opinion we seem to do a lot of talking about taking the gospel to everyone but the church has lost it's platform in the world. The community could care less what the church has to say until they know how much the church cares. We've got the most important message anyone could hear and we've been commissioned to share it so we should be real good at finding ways to gain an audience.

I love the creativity of the show and think we can learn something from it. Come on church...let's see what we can do!

--Collin