What the Preacher can Learn From a Motorcycle

The faster you go, the more invisible you become.

An 18-wheeler barreling down the interstate at 90 mph is at least visible. But you are slightly larger than a bicycle and at that rate of speed, you are all over a driver before he knows you are there. And what that means is…

You are vulnerable to his pulling out in front of you as he changes lanes. We can hear him telling the cop as they scrape your body off the asphalt, “I’m as sorry as I can be, officer. But I didn’t see the guy.”

You were almost invisible.

Now, that’s lesson enough for anyone right there without any moralizing and sermonizing on it. It’s a lesson in safety on the highways we should all take into account: The faster we drive, the less likely other drivers will see us. Thus we endanger ourselves, our passengers and others on the highway.

The lesson for pastors? Keep reading