Saturday, May 29, 2004

So those who welcomed his message were baptized, and that day about three thousand persons were added. They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.
(Acts 2.41-42 NRSV)

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A Harvard University professor once sought an interview with Phillips Brooks, the beloved preacher of another generation. The professor had a serious problem and needed help. He spent an hour with Phillips Brooks and came out a changed man. Later it dawned on him that he had forgotten to ask Brooks about his problem! He says, however, "I did not care; I had found out that what I needed was not the solution of a special problem, but the contagion of triumphant spirit."

I like that phrase--"the contagion of triumphant spirit." A triumphant spirit is contagious. That was the spirit with which Simon Peter stood up to address that large throng on the day of Pentecost. Three thousand souls were added to the church that day. And daily more souls were added by the contagious spirit of the community of faith which was the church. There's is no limit to what we might accomplish if we were empowered by God and empowered by one another.

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Dear God, fill me with your contagious spirit. Amen.

Ron Newhouse

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