The parable of the Live-Saving Station
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjxgAbxaspg&feature=player_detailpage]
Text version can be found here. That site asserted in 1990 the text is used by permission and is copyrighted by Youth Specialties. Thus I won’t quote the text. You can check it out with one click.
The above video adds comments about the people rescued from drowning having different color skins. Even more discomfort for the people who wanted a club house instead of a life-saving station.
What is your church? A life-saving station? Or a club house?
(Here’s the video link in case the above link breaks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjxgAbxaspg&feature=player_detailpage . Sometimes those links break.)