Pastor Halts Sermon to Embrace Cursing Homeless Man During Church Service

A San Antonio pastor and church are receiving widespread praise after the minister paused his sermon to embrace and vow support for a homeless man whom he invited on stage after the man began shouting obscenities during a sermon on the Parable of the Lost Sheep. Pastor Ed Newton of Community Bible Church was preaching from Luke 15 in an April 7 sermon when the homeless man loudly shouted “bulls--t,” leading to a few laughs from the pastor and the audience, who seemed to be searching for the right response. The situation turned more serious, though, when the homeless man said he had been suicidal that morning until a parishioner invited him to church.

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