Mick - OSS

Was recently playing around on Youtube and came across a series of videos very similiar to our Norm and NCYC adds and then on further looking I came across a video that humiliates and forces people to read the bible. The video is of a young couple having a meal together and then when the waiter comes and asks about dessert they say they are full and would like the check to leave. The waiter keeps forcing them to have the “dessert” and this then leads to him saying that if they do not take the dessert he will tie a millstone to them and throw them out of the window. On further probing the young couple are made to justify why they can’t have “dessert” and the young man is humiliated into asking his partner to marry him before accepting the dessert which is a Bible topped with cream.

I find this to be a very unchristian message. Surely the waiter should have been upfront about what the special dessert was? Is the bible so scary we have to just spring it on people without notice. Also isn’t it the individual choice of a person whether they accept the bible into their lives. Do we have to force it on them. Can’t we just live out the bible showing people samples of it and giving them free tasters. And also recognise that people may be full… but invite them back for it another time. Make them feel welcome and not forced to accept something!