The Miracle of Community

On Sunday we looked at the story of Eutychus falling out of the window in Acts 20. I focused on the verse that says that the family went away comforted when Eutychus was raised from the dead. Why were they comforted? Because the presence and power of the Holy Spirit, the Comforter, was at work to raise Eutychus from the dead when he fell! And what is awesome is that it wasn't like Pentecost, where people's hair was catching fire (or whatever that looked like) and they were all speaking in tongues. When Eutychus fell out of the window, they were all probably bored, tired and hungry. Yet the Holy Spirit was there in power even still.

What does that mean? It means that God is with you! In the extraordinary and the mundane. We don't have to try to manufacture some sort of experience. The Spirit is with us already! We just need to open our eyes in every situation and invite the Holy Spirit to be active in all things.

What is more, the Holy Spirit, the Comforter, indwells us so that we can comfort others. That, to me, is the miracle of this story. There is great diversity in community, but the same Spirit unites us and is active in and through us, even in our diversity, to work with power in our world. In Acts 20 the people were comforted because Paul allowed himself to be used by the Spirit.

So my prayer is that we would humble ourselves and open ourselves up to be used by the Spirit. That in our diversity we would have unity and community because the Spirit unites us as one body for the benefit of each other, and in the midst of that we would all bless each other because of the blessings we have uniquely received by the Spirit of God.


We had an awesome service on Sunday! God's presence was with us for sure.
I look forward to worshipping with you all next week!

In Him,
-Tim