In a seemingly random event by human experience, Roman Soldiers unwittingly pull a guy out of the crowd to carry Jesus’ cross.  But the Word of God gives him a name.  Simon of Cyrene had traveled nearly a thousand miles to make it to the Passover, and suddenly found his plans interrupted and his person humiliated.  But God had a divine plan for this certain man, who along with his family would be used of God to start a church in Cyrene.  Now the church in Cyrene would so flourish, that teachers would be sent throughout the empire preaching Christ.  One of these teachers ends up in leadership in the church at Antioch, and lays hands and on a guy by the name of Paul, who would then be launched from Antioch to take the Gospel to the whole world.  It sure is interesting what God can produce out of disruption and humiliation.  Get your Word on with us, where Simon’s story causes us to rethink what it means to literally follow in the footsteps of Jesus.