Unstoppable

Here's this week's Bible study blog entry for i.ucc.org:

What images come to mind when you think of something unstoppable?

• A football player rushing the quarterback?
• A speeding locomotive?
• Gossip?
• An urban legend?
• Political bickering and partisan posturing?

Nope.

• The football player can be stopped by a block.
• A speeding locomotive can be stopped with brakes.
• Gossip can be stopped when people refuse to spread it.
• An urban legend can be stopped in a similar manner.
• Political bickering and partisan posturing may seem unstoppable, but reason and conversation can even stop that.
  

What’s unstoppable? We’re reading about it in this week’s Bible passage from Acts 5:27-32.

God’s gift of repentance and forgiveness is unstoppable. God’s call that all would love God and love all is unstoppable. God’s desire that all would be saved is unstoppable.

• Folks can try to stop it outright.
• Folks can get it completely wrong
• Folks can argue about it
• Folks can deny it.

But folks can’t stop it.

God’s mission is unstoppable.

Thoughts?