The full effect of following Jesus

Rev. Owen Skinner, Associate Pastor, Snellville UMC, gave an unusually captivating devotional as part of Avondale Pattillo UMC's Lunch Lift Devotions during Holy Week. His devotion, "The full effect of following Jesus", was inspired by a church Palm Sunday pageant that included Jesus riding into the sanctuary on a donkey.

What followed was fuel for Rev. Skinner's amusingly aromatic anecdote about the full effect of following Jesus not being what we may expect. It was also a reminder that Jesus' procession in to Jerusalem was probably also filled with smells -- from masses of people as well as the animals. And as a sidebar, the anecdote served to also remind us that we all have some manure in our lives that may need to be cleaned up.

Our Lunch Lift devotions were preceeded by a light lunch that the church provided and featured United Methodist clergy from the general area.