Wolf Chili Mistake That Got Me into Hot Water in Ministry
The recent sword-swallowing pole-climbing controversy at a Christian Men’s Conference got me to thinking of when I got myself into hot water while doing ministry. Back in the mid-90s when I was a youth pastor I would take a vanload of teens to youth camp every summer at the district camp in Maypearl, Texas. At one of those camps, I got a great idea for a mixer/game to try myself sometime. Before the summer was over I found my chance to use it at an inner-city African-American Baptist church where we were hosting monthly outreaches for the neighborhood youth. So we'd spend the first hour drawing a crowd by doing fun and crazy activities in the field next to the church and then invite them into the church for a youth service. So I did exactly as I had seen at church camp. I lined up 10 kids in front of a table with 10 clean open diapers, filled each one with a can of no beans Wolf brand chilli, told them to put their hands behind their backs and get to wolfin. The first one to cle
