Leaping into a shared life!

James Cathcart April 26, 2026 0 0

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Acts 2: 42-47 (NIV-UK)

42 They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. 43 Everyone was filled with awe at the many wonders and signs performed by the apostles. 44 All the believers were together and had everything in common. 45 They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need. 46 Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, 47 praising God and enjoying the favour of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.

Sometimes there’s nothing for it but to leap into life following Jesus. The disciples in today’s Bible reading are all in, they are throwing themselves into life with Jesus. Every aspect of their life is affected.

Coming face to face with the cross — truly seeing it — physically moves people. Some flinch, some shrug, some kneel, and some… some leap. Some throw themselves into it.

When we draw near to the cross — when we take a second look after the flinch, and a third look after the shrug, and when we look up after kneeling — the cross turns us back to face the world. For the cross is empty.

And Jesus is elsewhere.

Prayer:

Dear Jesus,

You are no longer on the cross

no longer in the tomb.

Returning to the foot of the cross

we feel sorrow, scepticism, awe and hope

as we are horrified, confused, overwhelmed and inspired.

But you aren’t here.

You are elsewhere.

Help us to learn from your early followers

who threw themselves into shared life

with one another and with you.

We confess that we often focus on

thinking a new way,

believing a new way,

or feeling a new way,

when you would have us live a new way.

Amen.