Lent, Day 9: "It's called the Church! Have you heard of it?"

Over the last few days as I've contemplated what I should share with you I keep thinking of this great quote from a hilarious, amazing minister named J. John. I've posted the quote below, it's a fantastic way to define the church. But this quote, along with a few others from him, is better seen and heard because he is quite funny! So, here's a video introducing J. John; the quote for today is the first little segment:



“I sat next to this lady on an airplane at Heathrow airport and I said, ‘Hello!’ and she said, ‘Ooh hello.’ And I said, ‘Where are you going?’ and she said, ‘Well I’m going to Singapore’ then she said, ‘Where are you going?’ and I said, ‘I’m going to Perth, Australia’. I said, ‘What do you do?’ so she told me, then she said, ‘What do you do?’ and I said, ‘Well... I work for a global enterprise’ She said, ‘Do you?’ I said, ‘Yes I do’ I said, ‘We've got outlets in nearly every country of the World. We've got hospitals and hospices and orphanages. We do marriage work; we've got feeding programmes; we’ve got reconciliation work; we've got justice work.' I said, ‘Basically, we look after people from birth to death and we deal in the area of behavioural alteration.’ She said, ‘Wow!’ She said, ‘What’s it called?’ I said, 'It’s called the Church, have you heard of it?”