To live as an echo of Jesus is to let His life strike your life so deeply that what comes out of you sounds like Him.

Not a copy of church culture. Not a performance of religion. An echo.

Jesus speaks mercy, and our lives repeat it.
Jesus touches the rejected, and our hands repeat it.
Jesus forgives enemies, and our hearts repeat it.
Jesus feeds the hungry, and our tables repeat it.
Jesus goes to the margins, and our feet repeat it.

An echo does not originate the sound. It carries it.

There is something deeply human about the desire for the spectacular. We want the burning bush, the parting sea, the fire falling from heaven. We want God to show up in thunder and lightning, in a great ceremony of smoke and divine pageantry. Naaman, the great Syrian commander, was no different and his story, told with striking honesty in 2 Kings 5:1–15, holds up a mirror to every one of us who has ever struggled to find the sacred in the simple.