Contagious Christians - Tim McIlwrath

Tim McIlwrath explores the contagious characteristics of the Apostles, on a superb, highly-attended night at Listooder Youth Fellowship. Defining the word ‘contagious’ as:tending to spread from one to another, Tim highlighted many examples in Scripture when the apostles had a massive impact on the world around them. Accused of ‘turning the world upside down’ and ‘ filling Jerusalem with their doctrine’, the apostles had something special about them. So what was it? What was this special formula which each of them possessed? In 1 Corinthians 2, Paul describes himself as first coming to the Corinthians in fear, weakness and trembling, yet many souls were saved and a church established. It was not the men themselves that were special, but rather it was the Spirit within them that enabled them to wreak havoc on the heathen world. And today, when so many around us are living in darkness, our desire should be that we also would possess this Spirit. A gift of God at the point of our Salvation, we must allow the Spirit to have room to work in our lives. To fully experience the Spirit’s power in our lives we must reach the point where we are prepared to die unto our own desires, our own plans, our own ambitions and submit to the perfect will of Christ, and the leading of the Spirit. Praise God that He can use us to turn the world upside down for Christ, but our hearts must be willing to be used.