Mike Denton Meditation

Mike's Favorite disciple is Peter...he is telling his favorite Peter stories... from the water stories, to the Transfiguration, and many more...this one called Peter, this Rolling Stone among us...Jesus says I will build my church.

And here today we have another story of Peter in Acts 9:36-43. He gets the call to come to the aid of another disciple, Tabitha. Peter may have not realized how special this disciple was until he showed up and saw the impact of this woman's life. Mike thinks Peter had no idea what he would do when he asked others to leave the room and spends time with the "dead Tabitha". In this kind of moment, have you ever faked it....sometimes we don't know what we will say until it is coming out of our mouth. What got in to him to tell Tabitha to sit up?

I love Peter because he is like the United Church of Christ. We do this all the time in the UCC...we have resolutions for everything and we don't really know where it is going. Many of our local churches with little or no money step out in faith to do what they must when it makes no sense. We are a heady exasperating mix in the UCC and it is wonderful.

When the UCC first did the Ad campaign years ago...it made no sense...it was expensive, where would the money come from....and then as it was banned from many stations....it was spread and shown over and over again for free...we could not have known. It was crazy and it worked.

Now we are doing it again with this Web viral Ad...did we know how this would work out...NO and now it has had more than 100,000 views.

Here we are in this church and this conference....in that in between space...we are called into those edgy places where others dare not go. When we get them, like Peter we don't know what we will do....when we get there we pray and the words, the response comes and before you know it.....
The End