i was in dallas this weekend…at my seventh wedding for the summer…video coming soon
after church, we always go eat at the rivermarket in downtown little rock…we usually switch off between flying fish or flying burrito (yes owned by the same people)…
well tonight was burrito night…we usually have a few people asking for money on our way in and we usually buy some food for them…so when i saw two of our “church go-ers†talking to a guy i thought nothing of it…
we invited both him (cedric) and his friend (sunny) in to eat with us…they looked at each other and then he said something that made my heart sink…
he said…â€no man…we’re too dirty to go in there…â€
we quickly assured them they weren’t too dirty to eat with us and with some encouragement…they agreed to go in…
this made start thinking…how many people feel too dirty to eat with a bunch of christians…and yes i know he wasn’t’ referring to eating with us…he was talking about the restaurant…but it still got me thinking…
is church a place where “dirty†people feel welcome?…do i present my life in a way that all people feel welcome around me?
if church isn’t a place where all people feel welcomed…what is it?
(what are we?…”clean”?)