matt & the mercy rule

matt parker preached tonight at church and he was good.
he talked about 'the mercy rule'. the idea came from when his basketball team was getting trashed last monday night and the opposing team could only have one player outside the 3 point line defending, it's the mercy rule.
anyway he went on to talk about how God's whole way of functioning is on the mercy rule. how does God's mercy get shown on earth? through people!
his main points were how can we show people God's mercy.
1) STOP. take time out of our busi-ness to stop and help someone who needs it
2) URGE others towards Jesus.
3) HELP others to see what life can be like with God.

but above all of these, DON"T WAIT for the cry of help.

he was good. (thanks matt)

also, beth was leading worship. i love her honesty. just before the meeting closed, she asked the congregation if anyone else had seen the rat run up the tree in the courtyard outside during matt's sermon. i saw it. so did others. what concerned beth was that it hadn't come back down!!!

thanks kez and wendy for the comments and to bec winter too, she says she's going to comment soon! thanks ladies. oh and of course i can't forget the ever faithful tamara and kylie who of course read my blog all the time (they both just like getting their names mentioned. it makes them feel important, who am i to stand in the way of that???!!!)