Article: Where Have All The Disciples Gone?
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Where Have All The Disciples Gone?
Five years ago my family and I started a new church in the suburbs of Philadelphia. When we arrived I wanted the first dollar our church spent to make a statement about the kind of church we were going to become. So I took every penny we had in our church?s checking account, which wasn?t much, and blew it all in one day.
I called the police station in our area and asked, ?Where is the most drug infested, crime-ridden neighborhood in our entire region?? Without hesitation he named a neighborhood twenty-five minutes away. He said, ?We send a car there every night, why?? I said, ?I?m a Christian and I want to show people God?s love in a tangible way. I thought I would buy groceries for the entire neighborhood.? ?Why the %!@+% would you want to do that?? he said. ?I wouldn?t go ...
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