Partnership with God

There was a moment when the Gospel stepped into Europe for the first time. It happened in a swirl of divine directions and a dream, settling on a synagogue near the riverside and a woman named Lydia. God opened her heart and she opened her home. I like this combination!  It was the foundation of the church in Philippi, a “partnership in the gospel” Paul calls it, the beginning of a “good work” that will continue until it is completed “at the day of Jesus Christ.”

Perhaps we here in Annapolis are a part of that continuing good work. Perhaps we are being called to such a partnership in the gospel.