Road warrior

In today’s business world, they are called "road warriors": men and women who spend large amounts of time traveling in order to make sales, build alliances, or whatever else is necessary to grow the business (whatever that business is).

One does not need to be Rick Warren or Warren Buffett to see the parallel in today’s first reading (Acts 14:21-27): how Paul, Barnabas, and indeed all the Apostles were road warriors par excellence in the early Church.

You and I may not be called to travel to places like Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch or even Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, but wherever we may go, even if it is just on the street where we live, we need to be road warriors for Christ: sharing words of faith, doing works of charity, and whatever else we can do to be instruments of his grace in building up the Kingdom of God in the name of Jesus.