Mark Derricutt's Disturbing Thoughts
A Random Act of Kindness
posted Monday, 2 August 2004
This morning at church there was mention that in the evenings service a "random act of kindness" was going to be performed on an unsuspecting person, mild interest perked the brain...
Later in the evening at tonights service, $ASSOCIATE_PASTOR starts to talk about how the lost don't know that there lost, and something about choices we make, leading from this he mentioned that as $MAIN_PASTOR and $MAIN_PASTOR->wife() are overseas and theres noone to cook for their children, the church would shout them dinner at Pizza Hut - ok, that was random, and kind; but thats not all - continuing on it was revealed the random act was not on the pastors children and their dinner, but on whoever it was who delivered the pizzas to the church building.
Twenty minutes later after the collection plate passed around and the rest of the message was spoken Pizza Hut arrived, and a somewhat bemused delivery guy hesitantly walked to the podium infront of an audience of nearly a thousand people cheering and apparantly congratulating him for something... I don't know about you - but I'm not sure how I'd feel about walking out infront of that many people without -some- mental preparation going on in my head, let alone a foreign delivery guy... after the pizzas were paid for $PASTOR told him that as a church we wanted to give him the biggest tip he'd ever get delivering pizza - and then two rather large bags were handed over and he left. No preaching, no demonic intercession, no "kick me" sign stuck to his back, just a bag containing ( what was later revealed to be ) just over $820.
Returning the events back on the sermon just preached, $PASTOR wrapped things up with "now... what if he was lost, or decided not to walk up here on stage...".
It's all about directions, and staying focused... which also coincides nicely with what $VISITING_PASTOR spoke during the mornings service:
Later in the evening at tonights service, $ASSOCIATE_PASTOR starts to talk about how the lost don't know that there lost, and something about choices we make, leading from this he mentioned that as $MAIN_PASTOR and $MAIN_PASTOR->wife() are overseas and theres noone to cook for their children, the church would shout them dinner at Pizza Hut - ok, that was random, and kind; but thats not all - continuing on it was revealed the random act was not on the pastors children and their dinner, but on whoever it was who delivered the pizzas to the church building.
Twenty minutes later after the collection plate passed around and the rest of the message was spoken Pizza Hut arrived, and a somewhat bemused delivery guy hesitantly walked to the podium infront of an audience of nearly a thousand people cheering and apparantly congratulating him for something... I don't know about you - but I'm not sure how I'd feel about walking out infront of that many people without -some- mental preparation going on in my head, let alone a foreign delivery guy... after the pizzas were paid for $PASTOR told him that as a church we wanted to give him the biggest tip he'd ever get delivering pizza - and then two rather large bags were handed over and he left. No preaching, no demonic intercession, no "kick me" sign stuck to his back, just a bag containing ( what was later revealed to be ) just over $820.
Returning the events back on the sermon just preached, $PASTOR wrapped things up with "now... what if he was lost, or decided not to walk up here on stage...".
It's all about directions, and staying focused... which also coincides nicely with what $VISITING_PASTOR spoke during the mornings service:
- Know your goal/destination/purpose: When you don't have a goal or purpose firmly set in your mind, all you're going to be doing is drifting around aimlessly, lost and unfocused.
- Give it your all, your 100%: If you're going to do something, do it right, give it your best and work to your full potential. Their's no point doing a substandard job when you know you can do more.
- Keep things in perspective: Don't get too proud or big headed - you're not God - God is.
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