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Now here's today's news, discerned differently.

Remember when you couldn't find toilet paper?

Chad McMillan, the pastor of students, evangelism, and missions at First Baptist Church

in Navasota, Texas had a novel idea.

He put his pastor on a trailer surrounded by plexiglass and armed him with a t-shirt gun to distribute toilet paper rolls wrapped with Bible verses.

It went so well, they added a pulpit, piano, and sound system to do pop-up worship services while flinging the TP.

Then Macmillan started Barbecue Baptist Church.

The church borrowed a catering truck from a member and traveled around the

county, serving about four meals a day, four days a week, along with a short worship service. Last month,

they took the ministry on the road from Navasota to Nashville, visiting first responders

and medical professionals across six states in seven days. Along with the meals,

they are offering a message of hope and some humor as well. Not to make light of what's happening,

McMillan explained, but to try to give people a moment of levity and joy to know that God loves them,

and we love them. When you're offering free toilet paper and barbecue, people tend to be grateful.

When you're called to share unpopular biblical truth, they can be less so.

It is especially challenging to speak such truth to people when our success depends on their

affirmation.

Most of you listening to this podcast make your living in the secular world,

and are therefore measured by secular means.

In such a culture, it can be risky to stand up for spiritual truth.

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