Years ago a song hit the airwaves called Voices Carry. The chorus was “hush, hush, even downtown voices carry”. I can’t help but think what an antithesis that chorus was to what we really should have been doing. As Christians we are to be courageous and bold, but somewhere in time we just became hushed about our faith. Fear crept in about offending someone. What would be more offensive though, letting someone keep falling into a pit of despair with our silence, or sharing the good news?
We who have love and hope should be anything but quiet, especially downtown! Our voices are meant to be carried. Even in our most dismal of circumstances, hope in what we say carries.
Act 16:25-26 But about midnight, as Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns of praise to God, and the [other] prisoners were listening to them, Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the very foundations of the prison were shaken; and at once all the doors were opened and everyone’s shackles were unfastened.