Who doesn't love a good sequel? Where would the story of Luke and Leia be with out the Star Wars saga unfolding across eight (plus) movies and nearly four decades? The Toy Story sequels made Sheriff Woody and Buzz Lightyear household names and beloved friends of childhood. As movie goers, we've gotten skilled at recognizing a movie ending that lends itself well to a sequel... we see the possibilities for the next story, the unanswered questions, the unresolved plot lines.
If our lives with Jesus are stories, what is the next installment in the series that is your faith? In the opening lines of the book of Acts in the Bible, Jesus tells his followers that they will be his witnesses in "...Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth." And the stories follow one after the other of his followers engaging the world with love, forgiveness, generosity, grace, and compassion, taking the gospel story to the 'ends of the earth.' Some of the stories are tender, some are adv
