It's a bad deal

Each week, in thousands of churches across America, (not to mention around the world) in cities large in small, in rented schoolrooms and in magnificent palaces, pastors shepherd their people with the intent of bringing them closer to God so more people can be led to Christ. But those ministries receive no media airtime, because there is no story there. People giving their time and talents to lead people to Christ is not a story, so it goes on unnoticed to the those who are not part of a community of believers. But let a little group do something outrageous and the cameras will appear as if by magic and broadcast it around the world. The group planning to burn Qurans this Saturday is a prime example of this. I could go many different ways with this post at this point, but I will just say this. To many in the world, this is the only glimpse of Christianity that they will see this week. Have people been brought closer to Christ with what they see from this church, or does it confirm their susupicions that Christianity is only for bigoted, hateful, unkind, politically conservative people? We have a much higher responsibility to the unsaved than what this group is trying to accomplish. I grieve for those who are driven farther from Christ because of the antics of a group no one had heard of before this stunt.