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Gunning For Souls: Church Gives Away Firearms To Attract
Unchurched
Unchurched
Christians are encouraged to be radical for Christ, but how radical it too radical?
When BET’s “Sunday Best” winner Le’Andria Johnson was recorded passing out cigarettes to smokers on the
street and even lighting them up as a way to share Jesus last year, it was viewed as controversial to say the
least. But what about giving away guns?
A Kentucky church has invited 1,000 residents to attend a free steak dinner, hear a Gospel message, and
enter to win one of 25 donated handguns, long guns, and shotguns through a random drawing Thursday,
March, 6.
Members of Lone Oak Baptist Church in Paducah, Ky. and Chuck McAlister, head of the ministry’s evangelism
and church planting team, have launched what they are calling a “Second Amendment Celebration.”
This focuses on American citizens’ right to bear arms—an issue many in the state are concerned about—as
well as the Gospel.
Though the approach is out of the box, more ministries are turning toward what they call “Affinity Evangelism”
reports ABPnews/Herald.
“When we talk about affinity evangelism, basically we’re talking about the identification of needs, interests or
affinities in a community that you can utilize as a platform for winning people to Christ,” said McAlister,
explaining his logic behind his nontraditional approach.
On the surface, this may seem clever. However, what the world has an affinity for is more often at odds with
what the word of God prescribes for daily living.
Romans 12:2 NIV says, “Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your
mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is--his good, pleasing and perfect will.”
How can the church transform and conform?
Do we have to do one or the other, or is it not that cut and dry?
Despite who is for or against the approach gradually gaining popularity, there are plenty Christian leaders
pushing beyond the boundaries of what the faith-based community is accustomed to in order to market the
message of faith.
Bishop T.D. Jakes’ 2013 MegaFest featured just as many—if not more—mainstream entertainment acts and
informational forums as it did faith-based ones in an effort to draw large volumes of people to Dallas for his
family-friendly festival.
Last summer, Pastor Marvin Sapp employed the help of top-selling R&B boy group, “Mindless Behavior” to woo
people to his “Back To School” rally.
In 2008, when Baltimore Pastor Jamal Bryant teamed with Erotica fiction author, Zane, for a ministry series titled
“How to Love a Black Man-Biblically,” many were outraged.
Yet, every day, ministries across the nation at increasing rates, are allowing parishioners' interests—good or
bad—to drive their organization's approach to Kingdom-building.
When BET’s “Sunday Best” winner Le’Andria Johnson was recorded passing out cigarettes to smokers on the
street and even lighting them up as a way to share Jesus last year, it was viewed as controversial to say the
least. But what about giving away guns?
A Kentucky church has invited 1,000 residents to attend a free steak dinner, hear a Gospel message, and
enter to win one of 25 donated handguns, long guns, and shotguns through a random drawing Thursday,
March, 6.
Members of Lone Oak Baptist Church in Paducah, Ky. and Chuck McAlister, head of the ministry’s evangelism
and church planting team, have launched what they are calling a “Second Amendment Celebration.”
This focuses on American citizens’ right to bear arms—an issue many in the state are concerned about—as
well as the Gospel.
Though the approach is out of the box, more ministries are turning toward what they call “Affinity Evangelism”
reports ABPnews/Herald.
“When we talk about affinity evangelism, basically we’re talking about the identification of needs, interests or
affinities in a community that you can utilize as a platform for winning people to Christ,” said McAlister,
explaining his logic behind his nontraditional approach.
On the surface, this may seem clever. However, what the world has an affinity for is more often at odds with
what the word of God prescribes for daily living.
Romans 12:2 NIV says, “Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your
mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is--his good, pleasing and perfect will.”
How can the church transform and conform?
Do we have to do one or the other, or is it not that cut and dry?
Despite who is for or against the approach gradually gaining popularity, there are plenty Christian leaders
pushing beyond the boundaries of what the faith-based community is accustomed to in order to market the
message of faith.
Bishop T.D. Jakes’ 2013 MegaFest featured just as many—if not more—mainstream entertainment acts and
informational forums as it did faith-based ones in an effort to draw large volumes of people to Dallas for his
family-friendly festival.
Last summer, Pastor Marvin Sapp employed the help of top-selling R&B boy group, “Mindless Behavior” to woo
people to his “Back To School” rally.
In 2008, when Baltimore Pastor Jamal Bryant teamed with Erotica fiction author, Zane, for a ministry series titled
“How to Love a Black Man-Biblically,” many were outraged.
Yet, every day, ministries across the nation at increasing rates, are allowing parishioners' interests—good or
bad—to drive their organization's approach to Kingdom-building.
MARCH 6, 2014
Article By Teri Addison:: EEW Magazine News