The Sound of the Church

⁴⁶And they came to Jericho: and as he went out of Jericho with his disciples and a great number of people, blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by the highway side begging.

⁴⁷And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out, and say, Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me.

Imagine the sounds this man heard on a daily basis…

Daily he heard the sounds of children playing in the streets…

Women talking as they made their way to the wells carrying their empty pots..

The sounds of their feet making heavier steps on the return home…

Sounds of the animals…

The donkeys pulling the load of the carts…

The lambs being hearded skittishly

All of those sounds were there today…

But then…

There was a different sound…

It was a change in the atmosphere…

It was a sound he had never heard before…

It was the sound of the followers of Jesus Christ…

The sound of the Church…

There are a lot of sounds that are heard by those in our communities…

But…

The Church should give a different sound…

A peculiar sound…

What sounds is your church making?

His knowledge that Jesus was present was solely dependant upon the sound of the Church…

Pastors, give a certain sound…

So you saints can echo that sound in the street of your cities…

The certain Sound of the Church…