Reflecting on Acts 16.28
Followers of Jesus are free to go but their call is often to stay in the darkness as a light and to be a fountain of love and grace for their neighbours including their persecutors. Thinking how to make this thought "all age" accessible for Sunday's service ...
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Hi Andrew,
ReplyDeleteI wrote the following just before lunch today as a draft to think more about but send now in case it may be of some use tho not directly answering your request!
As usual the Bible Study does not stop but sets a challenge to meditate, pray, think about, quench the thirst for more!
The jailer "How can I be saved?" in his shock due to the earthquake, and panic at the escape of the prisoners.
How to react today to that question? Have we ever been faced with that question? Have we ever experienced an earthquake?
Yes maybe we have on many more occasions than we are perhaps aware. Life's earthquakes and volcanoes that cause so much turmoil of the heart and mind, a financial crisis, broken relationships, endless number of upheavals in peoples' lives, causing shock, bewilderment, panic in the inner human self. Is not the jailer's question being cried aloud from all around us. Do we hear it?
Paul and Silas did. They heard the jailer's desperate cry.
Are we blind to the human earthquakes around us, and even if we are not, do we hear the cries or are we deaf to them?
The voices may not cry in the same words as the jailer cried, but the hearts and minds all around us and even within ourselves cry out the same words. As Christians we can be alert to the cries of those such as the jailer and bring Christ to them as Paull and Silas did to him.
"Earthquakes" can bring unexpected opportunities to the Church, congregations, individuals to respond as Paul and Silas.
Good luck! Michael