Ready, Set, GO

Martin the Magnficent was taking me on a walk.  (If you live with a puppy, you understand that sentence.)

We were coming back home by the front of the church building next door to where we live, and a banner out front had gotten twisted.  The upper left corner was folded over onto itself.

It was a banner welcoming people to Share the Spirit but the top left corner was flopped over, causing the top of the letter “h” to be unseen.

Snare the Spirit is what it looked like it said now.

That got me thinking.

“Catch the Spirit” was a former denominational advetising campaign of  The United Methodist Church.  While it was was, well, uhm, catchy, no pun intended, I always wondered what it meant.

Were we being called to “Catch the Spirit” and let it fill the sails of our souls like a sailboat?  That’s empowering.

Or were we to “Catch the Spirit” because it had gotten loose?  That’s us trying to be controlling.  Oops.

Share the Spirit works great as the next step beyond “Catch the Spirit,” in part because Share the Spirit assumes that as followers of Christ we have someting/Someone to share.  It’s great!

But trying to Snare the Spirit?  That happens when we get like the banner: folded in on ourselves.

Today, let’s Share the Spirit.  

Ready, set, go!