Friday is for Heart Songs
Acts 8:4-8 (ESV)
4 Now those who were scattered went about preaching the word. 5 Philip went down to the city of Samaria and proclaimed to them the Christ. 6 And the crowds with one accord paid attention to what was being said by Philip when they heard him and saw the signs that he did. 7 For unclean spirits, crying out with a loud voice, came out of many who had them, and many who were paralyzed or lame were healed. 8 So there was much joy in that city.
One of the clearest pictures we have of the early church is that of believers going everywhere and preaching the gospel. In fact, beyond the Great Commission passages in the Gospel and Acts, there is no command to go and witness for Christ. Not one. Early Christians didn’t seem to need that exhortation. Being a believer, being a follower of Christ, and being a gospel-teller was simply an assumed part of being a follower of the Way.
Oh how times have changed.
There was a wildness to early Christian faith, a boldness that simply could not be contained. Today, that wildness and the boldness that accompanied it seem to have been bred out of the DNA of what it means to be a Christian. Ours is a domesticated faith, a puppy dog faith, a faith lacking backbone and confidence.
Let’s get back to kind of faith that makes a city rejoice (Acts 8:8).
Let’s proclaim the gospel with boldness.
Let’s ask God to make us bold.
Let’s get into the word of the Living God in such a way that the word of God gets into us and transforms us into mighty warriors, wielding the word of God with compassion and confidence so that more of the lost get found, the least get served, and the forgotten have the gospel of peace preached to them.
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