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9 times out of 10 (is that a safe estimate?) Christians/churhes make the news for bad reasons. Every now and then Christians manage to make the news for GOOD reasons.
Forest Park Church Carthage campus recently stole the headlines of the Carthage city paper.
“Local church buys fuel for local drivers,” the headline reads.
For a few hours on Saturday, regular unleaded gas sold for $1.99 a gallon at Tiger Alley, a remodeled convenience store at the intersection of Fairview and River Streets thanks to the Forest Park Baptist Church Carthage Campus and its first ever gasoline buy-down.
“I can’t remember the last time gasoline was $1.99,” said Mark Dinwiddie Forest Park Carthage Campus pastor. “When we first decided to do it, the price was $2.79 or $2.80, but even when it went up, our goal was still to buy it down to $1.99, no matter what, just to make a difference in people’s lives.”
Rock on, Pastor Mark!!!
I haven’t reviewed the church’s website, so I have no clue what their beliefs are. Quite honestly, I don’t really care a whole lot if they claim the same “flavor” of Christianity that I do. They put the towel over their arm, fastened their work boots, got down and washed some feet, Christian or non-Christian. Fantastic idea!!
The church had about 25 volunteers at Tiger Alley on Saturday, some were washing windows, some were pumping gas and some were directing traffic.
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FINALLY! Something positive about Christians in the news. No screaming, yelling, protesting over a book or card or movie.
Good on them. That’s awesome.
Good service happens like this all the time. But nobody wants to hear about the stereotypical good christian. They want to hear about the ones that mess up, and thats what the news gives them. Its nice to see that occasionally the good stuff gets in too.
@ Jared. I agree wholeheartedly. Actually there was this article that this guy Nicholas Kristof did called “Evangelicals a Liberal can Love”.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/03/opinion/03kristof.html
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@Kristina. He makes a really good point. If you talk about somebody’s race or sex negatively, youll be bombarded. But its perfectly okay to talk negatively about Christians, or any kind of religion really. Its sad really.