Chocolate Invitations

As we rounded up the kids after trick-or-treating last night, a neighbor who also happens to be a LHC member stopped us at the curb. She said, "Just thought you'd like to know that the Hershey bars work! I handed it to a little girl's parents and invited them to this weekend's Family Frenzy. When I told her mom that it was at Lake Hills Church, she said, 'We keep hearing about that church. We'll be there this weekend. Thank you for the invitation.'"

Helen Edwards, our friend, said, "It was awesome!" What's awesome is that hundreds and thousands of people like Helen Edwards take the time to go out of their way--and out of their comfort zones--to reach out to people who don't have a church home.

We ordered 10,000 Hershey bars to use as invitations to this weekend's services and every one of them was taken by last Sunday. Let's assume that 1/100 were inadvertently ingested by someone who meant to use it to invite a friend to LHC. That still leaves 9,900 invitations to go out to people before this weekend.

Thanks, LHC, for being the kind of people like Helen Edwards who go out of your way to radiate the love of God everywhere you go. Remember, this weekend, I'm starting the new message series Love Wins. The message is entitled "...Because It Forgives & Forgets." I believe God is going to use this series in a powerful way in thousands of lives and in the life of our church. I don't know anyone who has too much forgiveness in their lives. And I've never seen real forgiveness fail.