This is an excellent example of how the ecumenical church is coming together. All they need is a project and watch the denominations flock together. The ecumenical church is the final deluded false church. Unity in diversity is not unity in ONE FAITH, faith in Jesus Christ according to the Word of God, verbatum not a vague conglomeration of different doctrines which are coming together in today's "Social Gospel" or "servant Christianity". These social issues are being used to bring down the walls between denominations so the Pope can harvest the world for his Virgin Mary.

(Excerpted from the Detroit News, May 9, 2001) Two Baptist pastors in Lexington, Ky., recently took the old adage "walk a mile in my shoes" seriously by participating in 24-hour simulated homeless experience. Jay Robison, senior pastor of Trinity Baptist Church, and Bob Baker, senior pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, joined approximately 50 other community leaders in going out into the streets of Lexington with little more than the clothes on their backs to discover what homelessness is like. "We were given a sack lunch, a couple of blankets and were allowed to carry no more than three dollars," Robison said. "The program coordinators let us know the places where many of the homeless frequent for food and shelter, and after that we were basically on our own for 24 hours."

The participants were divided into groups of four and set out from different parts of the city. Police officers were members of each group for safety. The "24 Hour Homeless Experience" was sponsored by the Lexington Faith Community Housing Advocacy Program, an outreach ministry of Catholics In Action. The event raised funds for area residents whose rising utility costs threatened to make them homeless. Both men said their churches supported their experience both financially and spiritually. "I hope to use what happened as sermon illustrations in the upcoming months, and use it as a way to help our members be more aware of the needs of our community," he said. According to Baker, the Faith Community Housing Advocacy Program and Catholics In Action have planned a meeting for all the participants to discuss using their experiences in the community and working together to assist the homeless.

"This whole experience has made me appreciate the material blessings I have, and I am more willing and more intent on helping the homeless," Baker said. "I'm looking forward to meeting with the group participants again and discussing where we go from here."

"This experience has been what I think Matthew 25 is all about," he added. "The church needs to do a whole lot more than it has been doing."

[CNVIEW.COM EDITOR] Here are a few comments I will NEVER apologize for. What the "church" needs to do is follow Christ and forget about PLAYING SOLDIER. Experience is not to be gained by PLAYING; and police protective playing at that.

Catholics in Action are headed for hell unless they come to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. There is no SAVING KNOWLEDGE in the Roman Catholic Church. It teaches the knowledge of the "tradition" of the Roman Church and the "sayings" of the "infallible" Pope. There is no saving knowledge in the words of the Pope. Jesus Christ didn't PLAY around at ANYTHING. Yes, He was at "all points" tempted as we are. Heb 4:15. Now, folks, this was not PLAY tempting. It was REAL. He was not PLAY ACTING a man. He BECAME a man. He WAS man. John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. John 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, [made man] and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. John 1:14 does not say that the Word PLAYED flesh, does it now? Onward through the fog. (CNVIEW.COM )