Viral Faith

This past week I went to Dallas for the RightNow conference.  Great speakers, good break out sessions.  The thrust was about being missional;  that is, being missionaries in your own neighborhood and community.  Speakers hammered away at recurring themes God has been working on in my life, such as, what does it mean to allow Jesus to live through me?  Or, how can I extend the influence of the Kingdom of God in the world immediately around me?  Or, and I like this given our recent study, how can we minister in the power of the Holy Spirit like Jesus did? I am convinced we – the church and the world – are on the cusp of a major spiritual outbreak.  The power of the Holy Spirit is being manifest more and more and as God’s power is revealed people are drawn to Him. Maybe you’ve followed the cholera epidemic in Haiti.  It only took a few UN workers bringing the virus into the country and before long it spread through many regions.  I want my faith to go viral – to infect (in a good way) those with whom I come into contact.  I don’t know about you, but it’s a constant struggle to stay aligned with God and empty myself so that God can fill me with His Spirit.  I know, just like it took only a few UN workers infected with cholera to create an epidemic, it only takes a few Christ followers infected with a love for Christ and this world to radically change the world.  A handful of believers, filled with the Holy Spirit, turned the known world upside down.  Is God preparing people for that today?  I think so.