A visitor to a Bank of America in Corpus Christi experienced a rather rough afternoon.<\/p>\n\n
He was a contractor, there to install a lock on the bank's service room ATM. While he was inside the ATM, the door closed behind him—and then wouldn't open. And he'd left his phone in the truck.<\/p>\n\n
According to NPR's The Two-Way<\/em>, "He had no one to call and no way to make his voice heard intelligibly through the machine."<\/p>\n\n What did<\/em> he have? Pen and paper.<\/p>\n\n "So people are coming by and using the ATM machine because it's still operational," a local police officer explained, "and he's slipping notes through the ATM, through where you would get your receipt."<\/p>\n\n One of the notes read, "Please help. I'm stuck in here and I don't have my phone. Please call my boss."<\/p>\n\n Most customers believed it was a prank—until "a good Samaritan took the situation seriously and contacted the cops," who also<\/em> initially believed it was a prank.<\/p>\n\n Eventually, however, the man was freed.<\/p>\n\n As one officer put it, "It was just crazy."<\/p>\n\n Potential Preaching Angles: This modern-day "good Samaritan" may have served his neighbor in a humorously unfortunate situation—but how can we, too, be looking out for ways to live out the truths of Jesus' famous parable in our day-to-day lives?<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"template":"","tax_ctp_audience":[],"tax_ctp_authors":[],"tax_ctp_categories":[165],"tax_ctp_format":[171],"tax_ctp_illustration_types":[411],"tax_ctp_multimedia":[],"tax_ctp_point_editor":[435],"tax_publications":[140],"tax_ctp_tags":[3548,3595,3645,3941,4076,4080,4140,4281,4470,4477,4535,4546,4952,4953,5005],"tax_ctp_topics":[395],"class_list":["post-39751","sermon-illustrations","type-sermon-illustrations","status-publish","hentry","tax_publications-ct-pastors","tax_ctp_tags-caring","tax_ctp_tags-christian-service","tax_ctp_tags-community-impact","tax_ctp_tags-faithful-service","tax_ctp_tags-good-deeds","tax_ctp_tags-good-samaritan","tax_ctp_tags-help","tax_ctp_tags-involvement","tax_ctp_tags-ministry","tax_ctp_tags-mission-of-church","tax_ctp_tags-neighbor","tax_ctp_tags-news-that-illustrates","tax_ctp_tags-servanthood","tax_ctp_tags-service","tax_ctp_tags-social-action"],"acf":{"scripture_references":[{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null}]},"yoast_head":"\n