Tuesday, April 22, 2003
Tuesday, April 22, 2003
They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and fellowship, to the breaking
of bread and the prayers.
For 2,000 years Christians have been involved in a similar mission. Day after day prayers travel
outward and upward, and the One who does see and does listen has honored those prayers.
Today twenty centuries after Christ walked this planet, there are more persons who call him
Lord than ever before. Fellowship and prayer. The horizontal and the vertical. Whenever both are
present in the life of any church miracles are likely to occur. Where one or the other are absent,
there is a poverty of authentic joy and power. Make fellowship and prayer an important part of
your journey in Christian faith.
(Acts 2.42
NRSV)
There is a device, often called "the ultimate listening device," that sits looking like a gigantic
radar antenna, atop a bleak, ice-covered hill near the North Pole. Twenty-four hours each day,
365 days each year, it sends out signals that travel deep into outer space--farther than any
messages have ever gone. The mission? To see if anybody is out there listening. Out the
signals go, while scientists wait quietly for any response.
God of peace, may I not forget to have fellowship and prayer with you today. Amen.
