CLEVELAND — A city-wide upswing in salvations and spiritual awareness is being credited to housewife Sandy Donadio's Scripture checkbook.Posted on 07/28/2006 8:03:50 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
CLEVELAND — A city-wide upswing in salvations and spiritual awareness is being credited to housewife Sandy Donadio's Scripture checkbook.
Donadio ordered a box of flowery Scripture checks in May and soon began using checks that read, "Trust in the Lord with all your heart," and "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." Within days, the city broke into revival.
"She left a trail of new converts behind her, at the 99 Cent store, Kroger, the auto shop, the dry cleaner," says one pastor whose congregation has grown by 30 percent. "I heard stories of grown men dropping to their knees right in public after receiving Donadio's payment. Thank God she ordered those checks."
A Bank of America bank teller says she dedicated her life to Christ after Donadio wrote a check for deposit. That check read, "I'll be like a tree planted by the water."
"I realized my need for a savior right then," says the teller. "My mom's been dunning me for years to go to church, but I had no desire until I read the special message in the corner of that check."
Donadio says she's so impressed with the unexpected results that she's ordering an extra box and plans to go on a shopping spree, "to fan the flames of revival in Cleveland."
Is this from the Onion?
Appears to be a Pentecostal-bashing site. Rather banal and blase "humor."
Yeah, check out the site. It's a spoof.
Satirical, humorous, biting, smart-alecky--"Lark News" is all of these.
I forgot "annoying".
Alas, Lark News is a satire magazine.
It frequently makes fun of "easy faith" versus the real thing.
I have no problem with checks with scripture, but like the seed that is sown, most of it probably drops on hard ground.
However, there is a chance that someone handling the checks will be vulnerable to salvation due to prayers of others and the grace of God, and the check will be the final link to a change of heart.
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