Outreach programs are good things, and the church should indeed serve their communities - but you can lose your way with them and take it too far - the church must avoid allowing them become more of a game than actual outreach.
I’d buy that for a dollar!
The best giveaway in an Easter or Christmas service is a short, relevant welcoming sermon and afterwards a hearty handshake and sincere smile from fellow churchgoers. “How nice to have you join us today. Where y’all from? [Chat, chat] Hope to see you again soon.” AND! Keep amateur BillyBob inquisitors at bay.
Is this what it has come to? We are living in the last times.
I’ve been involved with churches that give prizes at Vacation Bible School to kids who memorize the most Bible verses or bring the most other kids. I won one when I was a kid.
I also went to Bible camp for free by learning verses. I became a Christian at the camp and am still marginally involved 50 years later. for 20 years I was a bus driver transporting kids to camp. My kids have all worked there on staff or as counselors.
I don’t really see the issue. I recall a Bible verse that said something like “I become all things to all people so that I may win some to Christ.”
Will the cash be in plastic Easter eggs?
The “falling away” continues unabated