A Night to Remember

Christian Commitment
in Today's World


Acts 20:7-12
 ^7-9We met on Sunday to worship and celebrate the Master's Supper. Paul addressed the congregation. Our plan was to leave first thing in the morning, but Paul talked on, way past midnight. We were meeting in a well-lighted upper room. A young man named Eutychus was sitting in an open window. As Paul went on and on, Eutychus fell sound asleep and toppled out the third-story window. When they picked him up, he was dead.
 ^10-12Paul went down, stretched himself on him, and hugged him hard. "No more crying," he said. "There's life in him yet." Then Paul got up and served the Master's Supper. And went on telling stories of the faith until dawn! On that note, they left—Paul going one way, the congregation another, leading the boy off alive, and full of life themselves.

For Reflection
This weekend we celebrate a great world experiment.  A nation governed by its people.  Its tenets were formed from evolving European values and was influenced by Christianity. 

There are and will continue to be times when we stumble and fall asleep.  There are and will continue to be times that we appear to have lost our way and are dying.  Some would claim we are dead!  But, there is life in us.  It is the life in each believer, transformed by the Holy Spirit.

If our Government appears to become more and more atheistic it may not be such a bad thing.  Such separation between church and state ensures the freedom of the Holy Spirit to move in our midst.  It ensures that God in man's image does not overrule man in God's image. 

Pray for those who each day give their lives to this great experiment.  Pray for the freedom to follow God and to do His will. Pray that you will conform to the Kingdom of God. Pray that God's will be done. Pray that God will hug us hard and breath life into a fumbling nation.