I am SOLD OUT of “Get off your Donkey” shirts again . . . Please do not order them at this time.

After having God give me a passion for calling people to “Get Off Your Donkey” and getting these shirts printed . . . God made a connect with 12Stone and the way they are “Getting Off Their Donkey”. It just makes sense for these shirts and those from 12Stone to connect. So if you are from 12Stone and would like to get a shirt, use the Pay Now button below and save the shipping cost. The shirts will be $15 printed on American Apparel in short sleeve. I will get the shirt to your campus for pickup as soon as possible. NOTE: there is a special instruction line just before final checkout - add your campus there. If you miss it . . . no worries, just email me once you get your Receipt Number from PayPal with your campus and I’ll match your RN and my RN and get your shirt to the right campus.

If you would like your shirt shipped to your house, please use the Add To Cart button on the right and a shipping charge of $2 will be added for the shirts to be shipped.

SOLD OUT

The first batch of shirts sold out quickly and new ones are being printed now. Cost is $15. Please send an email (sebren@mac.com) with size, number desired, and best contact.

I was meeting with my friend Kevin Queen the other day and shared with him the “Get Off Your Donkey” t-shirt were ready if he wanted to get one . . . a real connection happened. 12Stone was actually using the same passage to lead into a huge God movement at the church. I offered to give a shirt to him and PK as a reminder to stay off their Donkeys. Before long, Queen called me and wanted to buy all the shirts I had (just a few). Hence, I am sold out - but there are more coming and they are coming in a new color.

Get your shirt orders in . . . these shirt are being printed this weekend and shipped by the end of next week. You too can ROCK OUT in a “GET OFF OF YOUR DONKEY” shirt.

The idea for this shirt grew out of a message I preached last week in Mississippi and a follow up conversation I was having with Tony Staires. We were talking about the Good Samaritan and how he was willing to have his life interrupted to be used by God. Thing is, in order for him to put the beaten up guy on his donkey . . . he first, had to GET OFF OF HIS DONKEY! In that moment we both said, “I’d wear that t-shirt”. So, not only are we going to wear it - you get the chance to have one too. If you notice, under the EY in DONKEY - it says 42.10.25 . . . that is the 42nd book of the bible (Luke) the 10th chapter and the 25th verse. 42.10.25 is the starting point for the conversation where Jesus begins the Good Samaritan story.

So what does this “Donkey” look like?

Actually - NO . . . most of us don’t ride really donkeys so the “Donkey” is speaking of something different here. Let me share a story I heard this past Sunday of a guy name Jamie getting off of his “Donkey”. You can listen to the podcast here (11 a.m. service on 11/16 - story starts @ 3:15). He was sharing how God has taken him on a journey into a life lived on mission and challenging everyone else to join the same . . . by the way - it is the “CALL OF GOD ON EACH OF US!”

So the story Jamie tells goes this way - he was traveling with his family and needed to go through a toll road. As it becomes his turn he does what lots of us do . . . he says, “how are you today?” The guy takes his $1 and replies, “you don’t care.” Well, Jamie says, “thank you” and drives off. Then about a mile or so down the road it hit him what the guy had said and he was just broken over the fact the man was right - “I don’t care!” So, he “Got off his Donkey” and turned his car around. He paid the toll to go the wrong way . . . he did a U-turn, got in the man’s lane and pulled back up to the guys booth again. The guy at the toll booth asked, “didn’t I just see you?” ”Yes, but you said you were doing bad and I didn’t care - well you were right and I don’t want it to be that way. So, I am back. What’s wrong?” The guy in the toll booth says, “man my feet hurt” . . . Jamie tells this guy, “I don’t really know what I can do about your feet - is there anything more going on, something I can pray for?” The guy from the toll booth begins to talk about marriage problems as cars behind are starting to honk their horns and are beginning to give Jamie directions - not directions to his next stop. Things like, “Go to H_ _ L” . . . So Jamie gives him the number to the church in the area where the toll booth is and say’s, “I got to get out of here.” The guy actually called Jamie a few months later and said thanks for stopping and that he had called the church. He also said that things with him and his wife were getting better.

That is “Getting off your Donkey”! It is Loving God through Loving Others as you Love yourself . . .

“Get off your Donkey” is more than a fun thing for to say or a cool shirt, it is a reminder of how Jesus lived and calls everyone of his followers to live. If you read the account of the Good Samaritan from Luke 10:25-37 you will see just what I am referring to.  After Jesus is asked by an expert in the law “what it takes to inherit eternal life?”, they end up with two Great truths  . . . these are know to Christians as the Greatest Commandment. Love God and Love Others as much as you Love yourself! Jesus follows this up with a story to help this “so called” expert understand who the “others” are that deserve to be loved. He tells about a man being beat up and left naked and 1/2 dead on the side of the road. Two preacher like guys come along and pass by on the other side of the road . . . then a Samaritan comes along and sees the man, cares for him, and puts the hurt man on his (the Samaritan’s) donkey before taking him to a local motel. Pays for a few nights stay and promises to pay whatever is needed when he returns if the guy working the desk will takes care of the guy who is hurt. Jesus tells us to, “Go and do likewise.” That is a command!

We are to GET OFF OUR DONKEY . . . so we can let a hurt and dying world ride. You never know when that hurt and dying person just might represent your Savior. (Mt. 25:35-40)