Keep Your Egg Drop. We've Got a Risen Saviour.
Every spring, the circus comes to town dressed up like a church service.
Helicopter egg drops. Carnival games. Free hotdogs. Free gas cards. Free steak dinner. And somewhere at the end, wedged between the bounce house and the prize table — a little Jesus.
You're not bringing them in for Jesus. You're bringing them in with free stuff and hoping Jesus sticks. That's not evangelism. That's bribery with a gospel afterthought.
The old line goes, "We're just using it to get them in so we can tell them about Jesus." But here's what you're actually doing — you're training people to expect a transaction. You came for the steak. Now you have to sit through the sermon.
We don't celebrate a bunny. We celebrate a Lamb — slain from the foundation of the world, buried in a borrowed tomb, and risen on the third day with all power in His hands.
"He is not here: for he is risen, as he said." — Matthew 28:6
That's the message. That's enough.
The Word of God doesn't need a gimmick. If the resurrection of Jesus Christ isn't compelling enough to get a man through a church door on a Sunday morning — a free hotdog won't fix what ails him.
We've got the Bible. We've got the blood. We've got a risen Saviour.
We're preaching the resurrection this Sunday. No egg drop. No steak dinner. Just the Word of God and a Saviour that walked out of a tomb. If that's not enough, we've got nothing for ya.