A Trunk or Treat without the Gospel is a waste of time.

That's the conclusion I came to with Pastor Ryan.

>> For context, our sending church Open Door Baptist had a Trunk or Treat Sunday night.

We invited thousands of local families, and we had hundreds of people registered.

And originally—

The goal was to use this as a huge opportunity to invite our guests back this coming Sunday for our Community Day... Free pancakes at 9, Sunday School at 9:30, service at 10:30. The works.

However...

Ryan and I decided that instead of just hoping we can get some of our visitors to come to a service, we can guarantee they hear what we tell them the night of.

So...

We set up speakers and a mic.
And presented the Gospel every 10-15 mins.

Because a Trunk or Treat without the Gospel is a waste of time.

Invites to a Community Day are asking the world to come to us instead of us going to the world like Jesus said.

So we went on the Gospel offensive.

Besides, we have their contact info and I've already sent an email with the landing page link for Community Day.

Offering them what Open Door has to offer is the wrong play. We opted to show them what Jesus has to offer.

And I'm praying we see a harvest from that sowing.