Have you ever gone to church and been given money instead of asked for it?  More than likely not, but that is exactly what happened at Radius this past Sunday.  At our Mother's Day Giveaway, we gave brand new $50 bills to 100 different people.  Some of them were members, some of them were visitors.  We just handed out the $50's until they were gone and asked the recipients to take responsibility for God's money by taking this $50 and doing something with it that would please God.  The only requirement was that you spend it on someone else and you write the story of how you used it on our website. 

As leaders, we realize that we can not become a bottleneck in our church by limiting the mission of God to our creativity and the work of God in our lives.  So we challenged everyone present to pray and ask God for creativity and insight into how they could encourage and be kind to someone in their radius, and then gave them a $50 to get that process started.  We are already receiving great stories of how God is using that $5,000 in ways that we would have never even considered.  It was a great way for us to not just tell our church that they are the ones who must make a difference in our community, but to actually empower them to make that difference.  I can't wait to think of other ways we could do this in the future so that all of our people are always living life and looking outward to see where God wants them to go and what He wants them to do.  I invite you to visit our website and read the stories that people are writing about how they are helping others in our community.  Here is the site: Mother's Day Giveaway

I encourage everyone that reads this to take a $50 out of your own pocket and take up the challenge, to do something kind and encouraging for someone you know.  If you are in another church, I challenge you to take this idea to your church and implement it yourselves . . . it is a great way to launch your people out into the world to do good.