Living Sacrificially Stuff - Off Topic - World Vision Mathew 24:35-40

Our family is going through a program that World Vision calls the MATHEW 25 CHALLENGE. I just heard about it yesterday.  I guess our church is sort of a “pilot program” for a future broad scale launch.

 I wanted to share the program with you for two reasons:

#1 - Since you are the current and future leaders of God’s church I think you might benefit from seeing how larger institutions right at this moment are seeking to inform and inspire folks on a broad level to compassion for the broken and malnourished.

#2 – Their use of technology to facilitate the process is intriguing – To launch daily reminders of each challenge and to see a video explaining the rationale for the challenge, you text M25 to 44888.  They then ask you what day you want to start the process.  The challenges are super simple.  

For our family this week the challenges are as follows:


Monday – Skip lunch and eat rice and beans for dinner.  “I was hungry.”
Tuesday – Give up all drinks except water. “I was thirsty.”
Wednesday – Sleep on the floor tonight. “I was a stranger.”
Thursday – Wear the same clothes you wore yesterday. “I needed clothes.”
Friday – Reach out to someone going through a difficult time. “I was sick… I was in prison.”
Saturday – Take a 30-minute prayer walk. “Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine. You did for me.”
Sunday – Celebrate as a church (if you did it with a church congregation as we are.)

In summary - As leaders, I thought you might find the content and techno-strategies for distributing the content inspiring!

Steve 

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