Media

How come the church always get bad press? One dodgy vicar does something stupid and it gets high press coverage, or a church says something and it gets taken out of context and ends up looking cruel and harsh.

How about when it comes to the church doing good things? How much press does the church get then?

I was reading the article in the Times today about street pastors in Plymouth (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article4877404.ece) and was thinking, "Why aren't there more of these?". The church does so much good. If you took Christians out of volunteer/charity work it would probably suffer a great deal! Let's remember it's because of Christians that we have the abolition of slavery, women have the right to vote, we have free education and free health care, among many others!

We do good things all the time but all it takes is ONE stupid thing and it's all over the place. Wouldn't it be nice to get just as much coverage for the good stuff? I was at New Wine this summer and over 300 people got healed! Over 300 got miraclously healed by God from physical pain!

How about that for a headline?