GIVING LIFE TO A "CULTURE OF DEATH" - One Bread, One Body, 3/26/2008

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Wednesday, March 26, 2008, Easter Week

Acts 3:1-10, Psalm 105:1-4, 6-9, Luke 24:13-35
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GIVING LIFE TO A "CULTURE OF DEATH"

"When the people saw him moving and giving praise to God, they recognized
him as that beggar who used to sit at the Beautiful Gate of the temple.
They were struck with astonishment — utterly stupefied at what had
happened to him." —Acts 3:9-10

Fifty days after Jesus' resurrection, about three thousand people believed
that He was risen from the dead and that He would also raise from the dead
those who believed in Him (Jn 6:40). The rest of the people of the world
were confused and enslaved by their ignorance of the afterlife and their
fear of death (Heb 2:15). How could a few thousand people reach the rest
of the world with the good news of Jesus risen? We currently find
ourselves in a similar situation. Today, the Lord is calling the
one-and-a-half billion Christians in the world to reach four billion who
do not know or believe in Jesus, "the Resurrection and the Life" (Jn
11:25).

In a few short years, the early Church reached millions of people with the
good news of the risen Jesus. They did this by the power of the Spirit. In
the Spirit, they preached the good news of Jesus. Signs, wonders, and
healings accompanied their preaching (Mk 16:17-18). Sometimes the Lord
first healed people to give the Church an opening for proclaiming the
risen Christ (see Acts 3:11-12). Often the Lord punctuated the Church's
preaching with a healing as an exclamation point.

Let's reach our "culture of death" with the message of resurrection and
life. Receive the Holy Spirit! Proclaim God's word! Heal in Jesus' name
(see Acts 3:6). Jesus is risen! Alleluia!

Prayer: Father, I will do anything to reach as many as possible with the
good news of Jesus risen (see 1 Cor 9:19).

Promise: "Were not our hearts burning inside us as He talked to us on the
road and explained the Scriptures to us?" —Lk 24:32

Praise: Laura, a new college graduate, took a year after her studies to
spread the Good News of Christ's love by serving the poor in a foreign
land.

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August 14, 2007

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