Emphasis Preaching Journal

On this February Sunday, let us think of a hot summer day in Southeast Missouri. A man and woman drove up and down the main street playing gospel music and then proceeded to walk down the sidewalks collecting money. Most people were shamed into giving something, including the man I was standing with. I had doubts about where the money was going so I asked the wife. I asked her which church she represented. She resented the question, but told me it was in a church some miles distant. I knew the town but did not know her church so I asked her where it was in the town.