So Tom Schermitzler was talking to everyone today about Rahab.  She was a prostitute.  And the great-great-grandmother of King David. And therefore in the lineage of Jesus Christ.

It was right in the middle of her brokenness God chose to use Rahab.  She didn’t need to get “cleaned up” first before He would ask her to serve.  Novel idea.

I won’t repeat the story here (read it for yourself in the book of Joshua).  What was amazing to me was watching the folks this morning as Tom told everyone that a “prostitute” was in the the great-great-great-great (well…you get the idea) grandmother of Jesus Christ.  The look from many was “You’re kidding me? A prostitute?  Really?  And God used her?  Really?”

It was about this time Tom brought out his friend Larry who plays the Shofar.  It’s a ram’s horn used as a trumpet.  Tom was relating a bit of the previous weeks teaching about how the walls of Jericho fell.  And this guy started blowing on the Shofar. And he went for a LONG time. And then he stopped and yelled “Hallelujah”.

It was pretty cool.

So Tom finishes and we begin to share communion and pray for folks as we do each week.

And then unscripted… Tom decides to have Larry come out and extend an invitation to everyone there. An invitation to let the Shofar sound once more this day.  And to let whatever walls standing between us and God come down. So we stand and listen to the Shofar sound.  Waiting to watch the walls of our oppression come down once again.  And as the Shofar finishes EVERYONE shouts “Hallelujah”.

The folks at Prodigal’s Home believe that God invites the prostitutes, the tax-collectors, the notorious sinners into a story larger than ourselves.

Your support shows us you believe it too.

Your continued support allows us to deliver a breakfast meal and a message of hope each and every week.

May you hear the Shofar this day!

Grace & Peace,

Mike