John 15:26-16:4a
You too shall be my witnesses,
because you have been with me from the beginning.
Growing up in the North East in the 70s and 80s I don’t think I ever heard the words ‘mission’ or ‘discipleship’ in relation to my own faith journey. Neither did I have any sense of having to ‘witness’ to my faith. I moved in almost entirely Catholic circles.
Choosing to enter a monastery changed things for me. In those months before entering I found myself explaining my counter cultural choice to all kinds of people. There was understandable bemusement as to why anyone would want to ‘shut themselves away.’ But the reality of monastic life was not that I was now hidden, but rather that I was saying publicly that in this place and with these people I will seek God and try to live the Gospel. This was and is my witness.
And now today I’m writing this post for my blog, Facebook and Twitter. There’s a dimension to my witness that I could never have imagined 30 yrs ago. With Twitter in particular, you never know who will scroll by and stop to read a tweet. You never know how the Spirit will move. In a world where many feel disconnected, I now have the tools to connect and, in a small way, spread the Gospel.
How can you use the tools which God has given you to spread the Gospel?
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