Mark Carey writes:

One Day: When Ordinary Life Meets the Kingdom

Not long after the dramatic and powerful day of Pentecost, something profoundly ordinary happened.

Acts 3 begins with two simple words: “One day…” Peter and John were on their way to the temple, doing what they had likely done many times before. It was just a normal day, until it wasn’t.

A beggar sat by the gate. Crippled from birth. Someone they had probably walked past more than once. But this time, Peter, and John, saw him differently. They were alert to the Spirit. They stopped, looked him in the eye, and said:

“In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk.”

And he did.

What changed? Jesus had poured out His Spirit, and now His disciples were beginning to live out what He had promised: “You will do the works I have been doing” (John 14:12).

This wasn’t a dramatic revival meeting rather, it was a regular “one day” moment. And that’s the point. From Pentecost onwards, the Holy Spirit has been empowering ordinary people in ordinary moments to do extraordinary things in Jesus’ name.

The early disciples didn’t have a roadmap. They didn’t always know what to do. But they were learning. They were paying attention. They were following the Spirit’s lead.

And so can we.

In our Network, we try to live this way too. We offer God our “one days” - our walks to work, our meetings, our errands, our conversations, our volunteering, and we ask the Spirit to guide us. We stay open to those kingdom pivot-points when God breaks in, and we are called to respond.

It’s not always flashy. But it is deeply real.

The Kingdom comes....... one day at a time.

Rev Canon Mark Carey – Christ Church Bridlington Network