This past week in our series in Acts we stumbled across an obscure character named Ananias.  God gives Ananias a difficult task and he fulfills it courageously (see Acts 9:10-19 and if you missed the sermon you can watch here).   And yet we never know anymore about Ananias and we never hear about him again.  It seems that Scripture is full of these types of people who make a big impact with little to no credit or mention.

On Sunday I mentioned the “Stacking Chairs” principle that we’ve adopted here at Port City Church.  The basic premise is that none of us—elders, leaders, members—are above any task…including (and maybe especially) stacking chairs.  Each week we set up 220 chairs and put away 220 chairs.  It’s one of the occupational responsibilities of being a portable church.

At the start of the new year I sensed the Lord calling me to surround myself to a greater degree with a few trustworthy men in my life.  In essence, God was nudging me towards taking a step in cultivating biblical friendship.  Hesitantly, but knowing this was the direction the Lord was leading, I reached out to two brothers with whom I had been forming a solid friendship.  

One of my favorite go to movies as a kid was the 1991 comedy What About Bob.  This classic Bill Murray film pairs Richard Dreyfuss, who plays a conceited psychotherapist with a recluse named Bob Wiley (played by Murray).  It’s so bad for Bob that he can barely manage leaving his apartment let alone function in any other meaningful way in society.  One of the best scenes in the movie is when Bob is attempting to board a Greyhound to New Hampshire.  

In Luke 5 there is a powerful story of a man with leprosy approaching Jesus and asking for healing.  It reads:

One time Jesus was in a town where a very sick man lived. This man was covered with leprosy. When the man saw Jesus, he bowed before Jesus and begged him, “Lord, you have the power to heal me if you want.”  Jesus said, “I want to heal you. Be healed!” Then he touched the man, and immediately the leprosy disappeared (vv.12-13).