Walking the path

Our family has a long history of playing games together. Years ago, my wife and I and our two grown children liked to play an iPhone game in which all of us were trying to fly the same spaceship. Each phone would display its own set of controls; the commands for operating those controls were generally on a different phone. When a command appeared on someone’s phone, they would have to yell out the commands so that everyone could hear in case that control was on their phone. The names of these controls were so ridiculous that we would often laugh so hard that we would crash the spaceship.

When other guests would be with us, we were always excited to introduce them to the game even though none of us felt we were experts; it was just great fun. With similar excitement, the early Christian church used to meet almost every night in various homes around the city and share what God had done and what they had learned. If someone new came in, they were excited to share what had happened and what they had learned. For many of us, blogging has become the new house-to-house sharing.