Last week I laid down a guantlet.
The next time the Sprit whispers into your ear to run up to a chariot, I challenged us to simply run. For those of you who have no idea what I’m talking about, this past week’s message was from Acts 8, the passage about Phillip and the Eunuch.
Phillip was walking led by the Spirit to a desert road when he sees a chariot up ahead, boarded by an Ethopian Eunuch. And the Spirit tells Phillip to run to that chariot and stay near it.
The more you take that encounter at face value, the more incredible it really is–that Phillip, despite the differences in class, ethnicity, and the utter awkwardness of running next to a chariot–just runs because the Spirit tells him to run. And this of course leads to an incredible moment of evangelism.
The next time you’re on the metro and the Spirit urges us to talk to the person next to us, the next time you’re on a plane, and you hear that whisper to share your faith; the next time you find yourself at the water cooler and the Spirit urges you to take the conversation to a deeper level—for all the moments we hear that awkward, unwanted whisper of the Spirit to share the gospel– RUN! It’s a “CHARIOT” moment!
And we’ll see what happens. We’ll burn through a bit of our dignity, I’m sure. We’ll make a fool of ourselves at times. But if all of us were to run when the Spirit tells us to run–think of all the miracles we’ll hear about on any given week!! This is a challenge I’m applying this week. And when I do run–I’ll post the results!
Pastor Dihan
