DANGERS BENEATH THE SURFACE (23 OF 34)
Dangers beneath the Surface (23 of 34)
Series: Acts
Robert Dawson
Acts 15
It has been a few weeks since I had the opportunity to go fishing at Keaton Beach with one of the men from our church, a man who shall remain anonymous in this story so as not to embarrass his sweet wife Laurie and his son Garrett.
I had never really been fishing out on the flats before so when he asked if I wanted to go I was more than ready – I was excited. I had heard all the stories about catching limits and having to throw fish back so I was pumped.
We left bright and early before the sun even gave thought to rolling out of bed and hit the road. (Just a quick word about fishing with he who shall not be named, make sure you pack a lunch because he does not share his wife’s homemade Chicken-Salad sandwiches. You can have all the waters you want, he will bait hooks, pole the boat around to put you on the fish but he ain’t sharing his chicken salad sandwich. If this were a debate he would have 30 seconds to respond because I called him out but it is not so he doesn’t. My side of the story is the only side that matters.)
Anyway, I digress, we got on the water and we ride and drifte over endless miles chunking lures for hours into an ocean flat filled with nothing. After hours of riding, drifting and casting into an ocean filled with nothing all of the sudden the ocean filled with nothing had something – two very big somethings. Two large sharks swam by the boat in 4.5 feet of water. These things made jaws look like a guppy. That’s my story and I am sticking to it.
It is a reminder that in life and ministry – though we may not be aware of their presence – there are always dangers looking beneath the surface. In Acts 15 we find 2 very real dangers emerge from the deep and threaten the future of the church…those dangers are still lurking today (Hopefully we can cover both).
Acts 15.1-21
Series: Acts
Robert Dawson
Acts 15
It has been a few weeks since I had the opportunity to go fishing at Keaton Beach with one of the men from our church, a man who shall remain anonymous in this story so as not to embarrass his sweet wife Laurie and his son Garrett.
I had never really been fishing out on the flats before so when he asked if I wanted to go I was more than ready – I was excited. I had heard all the stories about catching limits and having to throw fish back so I was pumped.
We left bright and early before the sun even gave thought to rolling out of bed and hit the road. (Just a quick word about fishing with he who shall not be named, make sure you pack a lunch because he does not share his wife’s homemade Chicken-Salad sandwiches. You can have all the waters you want, he will bait hooks, pole the boat around to put you on the fish but he ain’t sharing his chicken salad sandwich. If this were a debate he would have 30 seconds to respond because I called him out but it is not so he doesn’t. My side of the story is the only side that matters.)
Anyway, I digress, we got on the water and we ride and drifte over endless miles chunking lures for hours into an ocean flat filled with nothing. After hours of riding, drifting and casting into an ocean filled with nothing all of the sudden the ocean filled with nothing had something – two very big somethings. Two large sharks swam by the boat in 4.5 feet of water. These things made jaws look like a guppy. That’s my story and I am sticking to it.
It is a reminder that in life and ministry – though we may not be aware of their presence – there are always dangers looking beneath the surface. In Acts 15 we find 2 very real dangers emerge from the deep and threaten the future of the church…those dangers are still lurking today (Hopefully we can cover both).
Acts 15.1-21
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