Taking Root- and a Name!- in Antioch

Taking Root - and a Name! - in Antioch
Acts 1.19-30

The other day I had to go to Cambridge once more, just for a few hours. Looking for a particular shop, I walked up King’s Parade, and was reminded of someone once saying that if there’s anybody in the world you want to meet, you should stroll up and down King’s Parade and eventually they will come by. It’s ridiculous, of course, but there is a point to it. Not long after I’d turned the corner, a man I hadn’t recognized hailed me and introduced himself: it was a long-retired bishop who had acted briefly as a counsellor and friend to me 30 years before. Some places in the world are indeed like that. I have always imagined that Grand Central Station in New York might function the same way, though I’ve never been there myself and so haven’t tested the theory...

Taken from Acts for Everyone Part 1 by Tom Wright