My wife loves the movie “50 First Dates” & I enjoy it quite a bit as well. It is one of the few movies we actually own & will still watch on television when it comes on.

So if you want a cute love story comedy then this is our family suggestion.

The premise of the movie is that Drew Barrymore’s character has a rare amnesia that keeps her from remembering anything past a date when she had a car accident. So every day for her is relived the same over and over again. Adam Sandler’s character falls in love with her and when coming to understand her condition continues to try and woo her. As well, he also tries to help her live with her condition. This sets up some really funny and cute scenarios.

One of the scenes in the movie the couple are having a beach campfire, hanging out with many of friends of Barrymore’s character. One of the ‘friends’ played by Maya Rudolph, asks in puzzled amazement, ‘So you work everyday to get her to fall in love with you, and then do it again the next day?’ This questioning is met with a nodding “Yeah.”

What if the church were to work so hard and so passionately to the goal that it’s community were to fall in love with, not the church, but the God & Christ that church represents.

What would that look like? What would the church be doing if it did that?