ghost towns

Have you ever gone camping, did some exploring and visited a ghost town? An abandoned town where people once lived and thrived on some local industry like gold mining or the railroad. Buildings, leftover machinery and maybe a gift shop are the only things left that retell stories of discovery, boom times, heros, mystery, and hardship. The stories are worth retelling because in them are nuggets that we may find parallel our own experiences.

Some of these places have old fashioned names like Barkerville or Fort Steele.

In the time of Jesus there were thriving cities that today are just Ghost towns with a gift shop. They have ancient Greek names like Didyma, Miletus, Aphrodisia and Hierapolis. Each place have sacred stories that may affect our stories. In all honesty, we are not much different than the people who lived then. Their desires and pursuits were profoundly affected by the gospel, the way of Jesus.