The Dream Begins to Unravel

What is the Solomon's Portico of the U.S.A.?
The white house?

In Acts we find that
"They were all together in Solomon's Portico. None of the rest dared to join them, but the people held them in high esteem. Yet more than ever believers were added to the Lord, great numbers of both men and women, so that they even carried out the sick into the streets, and laid them on cots and mats, in order that Peter's shadow might fall on some of them as he came by."

The people had such faith in this way early Christians cared for the sick and hurting that they readily sought it out for themselves. What is really crazy is that you see these Christians caring for the oppressed in what would have been the Pentagon or Whitehouse of today.

Then, as Acts 5 continues, you see that the Christians are even arrested for living what the Sadducees call "this life." The life of dying every day to the cross over man leads to prison time, it leads to radical love. But this isn't your run-of-the mill revolutionary sect, this Christianity.

"If this or this undertaking is of human origin, it will fail; but if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow them-- in that case you may even be found fighting against God!" --Gamaliel in Acts 5

What is nuts is that the authorities try to shut down this group of peaceful, passionately-loving healers for being law breakers. Yet instead of being a testament to the faithful unyielding nature of the law, the arrest and consequent liberation of the Christians from prison was amidst the time when "more than ever believers were added to the Lord." As Peter says, "We must obey God rather than any human authority."

Where am I even going with this? Basically I am beginning to see that a life lived toward God, a life lived to the fullest looks revolutionary and it looks risky, but it looks so appealing in its love and compassion.

Compassion is our destiny.