Meant to be Spread, not Stacked

I love popcorn.

I consider myself somewhat of a popcorn connoisseur.

My favorites: Black Jewel, red popcorn, blue popcorn, popcorn from Indiana…

But I’m not a popcorn snob—I’ll gladly eat movie theater popcorn. I’ll even eat microwave popcorn.

Tangent: Have you heard of Halfpops? A-maz-a-zing! Local company. Great snack.

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OK, back to life, back to reality…

I prefer the little salt packets for movie theater popcorn.

Why?

It’s granulated. It doesn’t just dump in one place and stack up on the top layer of popcorn. It’s easy to spread it out.

I really don’t like the big metal shakers with powdered salt at the movie theaters.

It dumps out, stacks up, doesn’t spread well.

You end up with an overly-salted top layer of popcorn that burns your mouth.

After you’ve eaten that layer, you have unsalted popcorn again.

Lamesauce.

Salt works best when it is spread, not stacked.

Same goes for butter in my opinion.

Same goes for God’s Kingdom.

God’s Kingdom is ever-expanding, ever-increasing, ever-widening… it’s growing, reaching, spreading.

It’s meant to be spread, not stacked.

This is why we bless our community with backpacks and school supplies.

This is why we give frozen turkeys and groceries at Thanksgiving.

This is why we throw a huge Halloween Carnival for a few thousand people.

This is why we go to Swaziland and build homes for single moms and put on soccer camps for kids.

This is why we are constantly dreaming up new ways to reach out to our city, region, and world.

It’s meant to be spread, not stacked.

“So the message about the Lord spread widely and had powerful effect.” (Acts 19.20)

“I do everything to spread the Good News and share in its blessings.” (1 Corinthians 9.23)

Jesus said, “You are the salt of the earth.”

Let’s be salt spread, not stacked.

Salt spread is awesomesauce.

Salt stacked, lamesauce.