Getting my hands dirty...

Well, above you see Dan identifing a problem with Big Matt's car. The problem with the car was that the rear suspension was shot.

Well, Big Matt having northern heritage is quite tight with his cash, so rather than pay £25 to get the new suspension fitted, he decided that he'd fit it himslef. He also decided that I'd join him.

Well, 5 hours after we started and we had a complete car again. We worked hard, I mean, these bolts have been on the car 15 years, they weren't keen on coming off! We didn't have all the tools a garage would have, we didnt have a hydraulic ramp, but we had just enough.

Well, even though it was a day of hard work, and it could have been avoided by a measely £25, we had a riot. It reminded me 1 Tim 4v5:

But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, discharge all the duties of your ministry.

Ok, so this is one verse picked out of a whole situation, and if you want to know more, I'd encourage you to read the whole book, but I want to pick out one small segment of that verse: ...do the work of an evangelist... We know that the role of an evangelist, is not only important, but is defined as a role that certain people made by God fufil.

But here's my link, I'm not a mechanic, Matt isn't a machanic (although he does like tinkering with cars!); but we got our hands dirty, not really knowing what we were doing. We just did it.

In light of the current revival taking the world by storm we all need to be doing the work of evangelists! We all need to be getting our hands dirty! Mark 2v31 Jesus said to them, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners."

Get your hands dirty...get out there, live it, preach it, do it.