"Laos moi polys"

"Laos moi polys"

Have you ever seen a flash mob?

A group of people blends into an ordinary crowd — a mall, a park, a subway — and then at the right moment, they all burst into song, or reveal matching t-shirts, or pull off some crazy stunt. One of my favorites is when hundreds of participants fill a large retail store dressed like the employees. Customers have no idea who actually works there. Even the real employees can't tell their co-workers from the look-alikes.

"Laos estin moi polys" — "there are people who are mine in this city" — is the phrase God uses in Acts 18:10 to describe people in Corinth who belong to Him, but that Paul doesn't know about yet. Paul is fearful, tempted to stop preaching and move on. But God encourages him: there are people in this city that He has divinely determined to be His. How will they know they belong to Him unless someone tells them the good news of Jesus? As Paul later writes in Romans 10:14, "faith comes by hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ."

Look around. See Rome as a gigantic flash mob. Among the thousands living here are God's people — they just don't know it yet. Someone must tell them. Who might that be? We don't have Paul or Peter. But we have the Word of God concerning His Son, Jesus. God's Word to God's people becomes God's Word proclaimed by God's people.

Could you make a list of the people God has brought into your sphere of influence?

I want to encourage you to set aside 5–10 minutes a day, praying that God would use your testimony of His salvation in your life to bring any one of them to Himself.

Together for His Kingdom,

Pastor Loren