Push Starting Your VW Bug

So you know that I like cars and so I have come up with a car analogy to talk about something that has just occurred to me which is if I don’t explain it, it could lead to error and too much focus on the one thing that actually is to lead us to the more important thing. Let’s see if I can straighten this thing out so that it makes some sense.

Back in the day when I would be driving my 1969 VW around, sometimes the starter wouldn’t work. And if it was in between paychecks it was possible for the starter to go completely out without having any means to fix it. At 2.20 bucks an hour part time it would take some time to come up with those funds. And so but because the car was a stick shift and light I could simply get by pushing it. Now this doesn’t mean that I wasn’t strategic when looking for a parking space. Nope, shade wasn’t the primary objective, nor getting close to my destination. Downhill parking was premium for my VW.

Now although it might be necessary to push start your VW Bug, it doesn't mean that is the whole point of driving down the road right? Unless you get the starter fixed a pushing you will go. But the destination is a primary factor along with where to park.

Now this VW Bug story is the same message as is when I constantly talk about operating with miracles, signs, and wonders in your ministry. And yes this is assuming you all know that you are all called into the ministry as we all have been, at a minimum, been called into the ministry of reconciliation which is in part fulfilled by preaching the gospel in power:

2 Cor 5:18-19 - Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.
Mark 16:15-20 - 15 And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. 16 He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned. 17 And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; 18 they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

19 So then, after the Lord had spoken to them, He was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God. 20 And they went out and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the word through the accompanying signs. Amen.