People are always accusing churches of playing it safe and never thinking outside the box, but don’t tell that to the people at the Kentucky Baptist Association, because they’ve happened upon a new way of wooing the unconverted and it’s, well, it’s different. They’re holding an “outreach to rednecks” that’s expected to draw a thousand people in which handguns, shotguns and long guns will be given away as door prizes. A flier says the goal is to “point people to Christ,” and we can’t tell if the pun is intentional or not.
It’s all being promoted by ex-pastor and and former Outdoor Channel hunting host Chuck McCalister, who said “You have to know the hook that will attract people, and hunting is huge in Kentucky. So we get in there and burp and scratch and talk about the right to bear arms and that stuff” …
