Cleaning toilets for Jesus!
Yes... the title says it all. Last night as a ChristLife/Newman Club (Catholic Campus ministry for UMBC) sponsored activity, we got a bunch of students together to go around and offer to clean people's bathrooms for free. Why? In order to show God's love in an incredibly radical way! Known as servant evangelism, this type of activity combines humble service with evangelization. I got a bit of a kick out of it, especially after seeing people's surprised, confused, and often suspicious reactions when we arrived at their doors.So anyways, why did we even do it? Well, to be honest first and formost I thought it was pretty crazy, that's often reason enough for me to do something. But secondly, I do hope and pray (when my flesh isn't giving me a hard time about this) that people will see that there is such a thing as God's unconditional love, and that people can come into touch with that in the person of Jesus. Maybe showing up at people's doors and offering to do clean their toilets gives them a hint of that. Anyways, that's the idea... I'd like to offer this up for comments:
Does this activity actually demonstrate in a visible way God's love? Or is this too easily reduced to a stunt to get attention?
What are ways in which you have opened up someone's heart to God or evangelized through acts of kindness?
Labels: evangelism, service
posted by TheZikster @ 1:37 PM
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I had an interesting experience almost two months ago. Me and my friend John went for a run in our neighborhood - and we stopped to stretch and a man came up to us asking for help because he locked his keys in his car. He wanted a ride about 30 minutes away to get money from his house for a locksmith (he was $20 short). Instead we decided to give him the $20. And even though we gave him a "hard time" - in that we made sure he wasn't scamming us (which people do in Baltimore) - we ended up giving him the money - and I gave him my ChristLife business card and made the point that "I work for the Lord" and see this car I have right here (my '89 Chevy") - I'm poor - so I don't have lots of money to throw around. Me and my friend left (with some doubts in our heads) - but we lifted this guy up in prayer to the Lord and asked him to make something good come out of it.
Well, this past week, after not hearing from him for over a month - and suffering abuse from friends and family who laughed and said "we got scammed," - our buddy called me and we ended up having a great conversation.
He was very thankful for the money and was interested in getting more connected to the Lord, because in his own words, "I've been saved, but it ain't worth nothin if you don't do anything about it." So I encouraged him and told him I would pray for him.
Another act of kindness turned to an evangelizing opportunity!
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