I’m trying to think my way through it, too.
It’s not really a raffle or gambling, because the attendees haven’t had to pay or risk any money to participate.
In this case, though, the bible says that “money is a root of all kinds of evil.”
It’s like they’re playing with fire on this one.
If people go to that church with the explicit motive of gaining cash....then it does nothing for their soul.
In fact, Christ tells the Pharisees, doing things just to be seen is wrong in today’s Gospel.
It made me stop and think about the volunteering that I do at my church and whether I do it out of love and service or out of the need for recognition.
Is there a little bit of both in all of us? I think probably so.
Technically, it’s the love of money but I agree it’s a stupid gimic. Nothing says Resurrection more than filthy lucre.