Chick-fil-A – Why I ate there on August 1, 2012 and why I’ll be praying for them on August 3, 2012
Who would have ever been able to guess that a restaurant could polarize a nation? Not over their food, not over their service, not over their hours of operation, not over their customer base, but over the views of the leader of the business to support the definition of marriage as being only between a man and a woman.
We eat at Chick-fil-A because most of us LOVE it. We love the service and we love the food, especially that warm chocolate chip cookie.
I ate at Chick-fil-A on August 1, 2012 because attempting to destroy a business and its leader because the leader is FOR the traditional definition of marriage is wrong. Slandering the leader and labeling him as a homophobe is wrong. Standing beside a brother in Christ and proposing my support is right. In the end, I don’t believe homophobia is the impetus for believing in the definition of traditional marriage, but the lack of tolerance for this view is going to spin it that way every time.
Might a homosexual person be offended by my choice to do business with Chick-fil-A on August 1, or any other day I choose to eat there?
Maybe.
Was that or will that be my intention?
No.
Are there some who did business with Chick-fil-A today who had impure intentions?
Probably.
I am just as concerned that the HUGE amount of business that Chick-fil-A did on August 1, 2012 pushed those who promote homosexual marriage away from Jesus, but might my testimony about the transformational power of Jesus Christ have been compromised if I would have just stood idly by and watched one of my brothers be slandered and labelled a bigot without coming to his defense and offering my support?
I think it would.
On Friday, as the pro-homosexual marriage lobby tries to protest Chick-fil-A, with a Kiss Mor Chicks campaign, I’ll be praying that every Chick-fil-A employee is just as courteous and servant minded as they were today, and that those Chick-fil-A employees that are Christians will be given the opportunity to communicate the truth about sin and what God has done about it through Jesus with both actions and words so that anyone, gay or straight, through the hearing of the Word will be led to repentance and into our family of faith.
I’ll also pray that what protest is done is peaceful and without incident.
So, join me in “Pray 4 Mor Chicks” on Friday, August 3rd, 2012.
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Ryan, thanks for commenting, but we’ll just have to agree to disagree.
I believe the primary vehicle through which God allows us to experience His loving kindness is through people. I am a person and so I am a vehicle through which God leads people to repentance. I believe that it would have been difficult to see Christ in my choice of buying a Toyota, Honda, or Chevrolet, but He was there because I was there and He lives in me. Might I have compromised Jesus, and therefore the Church, because of my participation or purchasing choices? Maybe, but eventually time will tell. In the mean time I am not convinced.
While it is easy to de-personalize a corporation there would not be corporations if it were not for people. Therefore, my participation was not impersonal, but ultimately personal. Someone’s ability to make millions will only enable them to employ more people. There is nothing fundamentally wrong with making millions, or providing jobs. And as for now in America there is nothing wrong with stating what you believe based upon your faith, nor should there be anything wrong with supporting those who are attacked for stating it.