Acts 11:19-21

“Those who had been dispersed by the persecution following upon the death of Stephen went through the country as far as Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, but they spoke the word to no one except to Jews. But some of them, men from Cyprus and Cyrene, came to Antioch and spoke to the Greeks too and told them the good news of the Lord Jesus. The Lord’s hand was with them; and a great number believed and turned to the Lord.”

In restrained sentences these few words tell of one of the greatest events in history…Christianity is finally launched on its world-wide mission.

Here we have a truly amazing thing. The Church has taken the most epoch-making of all steps; and we do not even know the names of the people who took that step. All we know is that they came from Cyprus and Cyrene. They go down to history as nameless pioneers of Christ. It has always been one of the tragedies of the Church that men have wished to be noticed and named when they did something worthwhile. What the Church has always needed, perhaps more than anything else, is people who never care who gains the credit for it so long as the work gets done. These men may not have written their names in men’s books of history; but they have written them forever in God’s Book of Life.

--William Barclay, “The Acts of the Apostles”

As anons we, too, are taking epoch-making steps to awaken the world. Like these earlier Biblical anons, we too, will go down to history as nameless. But what the world needs now, more than anything else, is people – men and women – who will not care who will gain the credit for it so long as the work gets done.

Our names will never be written in history books, but rest assured, they will be forever written in God’s Book of Life.

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