Max Lucado’s church surprises members with $100 to use or "pay forward": Practical ways to fight fear with faith
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 1 September 2021
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A church surprised its members by giving them $100 during worship last Sunday. In The Daily Article for August 31, 2021, Dr. Jim Denison tells this story, focuses on examples of people changing lives forever, explains the need for faith in the face of fear, discusses a biblical text that invites us to such a commitment, and closes with a contemporary example of miraculous faith.
The Daily Article is written by Dr. Jim Denison and narrated by Chris Nichter.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-Changing Christians. |
| 0:07.8 | To receive the Daily article directly to your email inbox each weekday morning, visit thedailyarticle.com. |
| 0:14.7 | Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:19.5 | What are some experiences you have never had at church? |
| 0:23.6 | I can think of several. |
| 0:25.6 | I have never sung a duet, though I did sing an unfortunate solo once and have never been |
| 0:31.6 | invited to do so again. |
| 0:32.6 | I have never played the organ, though I did play the guitar when I was a youth minister, if knowing |
| 0:38.7 | four chords constitutes playing. And while I have overseen thousands of offerings over nearly |
| 0:44.9 | 40 years as a pastor, I have never been given money during a service by the church. That's because |
| 0:51.0 | I'm not a member of Oak Hills Church in San Antonio, Texas. |
| 0:55.0 | It's a congregation made famous by Max Lucado's ministry there over the years, |
| 1:00.0 | but the church is in today's news for a very different reason. |
| 1:04.0 | Last Sunday, lead minister Travis Eads told the church, |
| 1:08.0 | Today we're flipping the script. |
| 1:10.0 | Today we're reversing what we would normally do. |
| 1:14.1 | Every week we remind ourselves, we don't give to the church, we give through the church. |
| 1:20.8 | And friend, I want you to know you are the church. You are the church, and you know needs that we will never know. |
| 1:29.6 | And you can reach people that we would never be able to reach. |
| 1:33.3 | So the Church gave out 762 envelopes at two services. |
| 1:38.0 | Each contained $100. |
| 1:40.8 | Families were invited to keep the money to cover their needs or pay it forward to |
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