Can Seattle pastor Mark Driscoll sweet-talk the pickets from "church of hate," Westboro Baptist into dropping their attack signs (God hates fill-in-the-blank) for a platter of Krispy Kremes?

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Fred Phelps' crew from his tiny Topeka, Kansas congregation routinely pickets churches as well as funerals for military veterans, teachers and movie stars.

Now the 'Church of Hate' -- F&R's name for Westboro -- is raking Driscoll and Mars Hill, his 10-campus multi-site megachurch, for false doctrine, saying:

God does not love everyone -- in fact, He hates the majority of mankind, and has purposed to send them to hell when they die.

When Driscoll learned the hate-capade was heading toward the Mars Hill campus in Auburn on the south side of Seattle this Sunday, he blogged a special invitation spoofing their attack on Mars Hill...

Westboro Baptist Church, This False Prophet and His Blind Lemmings Welcome You to our Whore House for God's Grace and Free Donuts...

The sermon next Sunday will be from Luke's Gospel on how God saved a really bad man named Zacchaeus and how the self-righteous, holier-than-thou religious folks who saw Jesus lovingly befriend him stood around complaining and grumbling -- or basically picketing the love of God.

In the providence of God, we call that a funny coincidence. If you make it, we'll also give you free copies of my book, Doctrine, so you can learn what the Bible says about who God actually is, and we'll also provide fresh donuts and free coffee, along with smiles and chuckles.

Driscoll, a massive user of social media with worldwide following, tells me,

I've never commented on Westboro publicly before because I didn't want to draw attention to them. But once I heard they were coming, I thought, let's have a little fun and be pre-emptive with our position. We'll teach that we don't respond to hate with hate. As long as they don't disrupt the worship, they're welcome and if they don't like the sermon, they can throw things at the screen -- I'm preaching by video at that location.

Well, almost free. If the Westboro folks break the law, Driscoll expects security would step in. This campus of the Mars Hill network meets in a rented public school building.

So Westboro folks may be stuck outside, in which case, says Driscoll, who prefers filled doughnuts ("Chocolate, jelly, custard cream -- I like it all") says they'll take the Krispy Kremes to the picketers -- along with Bibles.

COULD YOU SHOW... hospitality to someone spewing hate at you?