As we looked around at each other, a hand went up in the front row.
"OK, Awesome!" Pastor Tim continued, "Does anyone have a truck to transport it?"
Another hand went up from the middle of the rows of pews.
"Great...the two of you can bring it here right after church."
Pastor Tim looked out at the 50 faces staring back at him, "Now, does anyone have some extra food in their refrigerator to fill up the empty one?"
Many hands were raised from all over the room as people committed to filling the fridge before it was given to Pastor Sanchez.
Pastor Tim had just finished his sermon and was closing with a few announcements. One being, Pastor Sanchez (from the Latino Church that shares the building with us) had almost no food in his house for his family because his refrigerator broke over the weekend and all the food spoiled. As the quick organizing effort came to a close, Pastor Sanchez was called into the sanctuary. Pastor Tim and a dozen others gathered around Mr. Sanchez at the front of the church to pray for him and thank the Lord for his provision. By the end of the prayer, both pastors were in tears at the beautiful real life picture of the Body of Christ coming together.
This would have been a common practice for the early New Testament church (if they had refrigerators.)
"And all who believed were together and had all things in common. And they were selling their possessions and belongings and distributing the proceeds to all, as any had need." Acts 2:44-45
What a refreshing sight to see lived out in our modern church as well!
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