A Best Buy of Love

At a recent meeting, Pastor Richie had a great phrase when describing the various Christmas-related opportunites that Hillcresters have this holiday season- he called it "a Best Buy of Love"! How great! His point is that when you go into Best Buy looking to purchase a TV, you like the fact that they have 60 different flat screens from which to choose from. If they only had one or two, you'd call that a garage sale! So the fact that Best Buy offers many TVs makes your decision perhaps a bit more difficult but also more fulfilling (I had 60 TVs to choose from, but when I decide to buy one, I am all in).



At Hillcrest, the holidays can feel a bit like that. We're offering lots of great things to be a part of, from continuing to purchase backpacks for Sioux Falls' hungriest students to particpating with a local Angel Tree project, to ringing bells for the Salvation Army, wrapping gifts at the Empire Mall for Children's Inn, or particpating with Sioux Falls Cares. The goal isn't to do all of them or feel like just because the church is doing it, then I have to do it. You don't buy all 60 TVs at Best Buy, you buy one, or perhaps two. The goal is to offer options and then choose one or two that best fit who you are and what God is up to in your life.



Over at the Point, one of Sioux Falls' newer church plants, they too provide a bunch of holiday options, encouraging their folks to do one thing and give to one thing. I like that as it removes the guilt from feeling like you have to do everything and people can maximize their impact.