Pastor Randy mentioned another aspect of the story of the blind man this morning.  Matthew, Mark, and Luke are three books of the Bible written by eye witnesses of Jesus' ministry.  Therefore, they are basically the same story written from three different viewpoints.  Due to their different personalities and experiences, all three men accounted what they witnessed slightly differently.  For instance, Matthew was a tax collector, an accountant of sorts.  He was probably a fairly analytical and mathematical sort of person.  He probably paid more attention to the numbers in the situations.  In his account of this story, he says there were two blind men by the roadside.  Luke's account only mentions one man.  Luke was a doctor, so he was probably mainly concerned with the initial man who spoke up and was healed.

Why is this important?  Well, if you look at another story of healing, there are four guys who take their friend to Jesus to be healed of his paralysis.  They even go so far as to lower him through the roof, when they can't make their way into the house because of the crowd.  The Bible says that Jesus healed the paralyzed man because of the faith of his friends.

P. Randy wanted to point out that people who have a lot of faith are called to share that faith and use that faith to benefit others.  If people who have a lot of faith stay silent and fail to take action, their friends and loved ones might suffer or miss out on answered prayer.

The second blind man and the paralyzed man were healed because of the faith of people around them.  How amazing!

So, we're not only called to have faith for our benefit, but we're also called to have for the benefit of others.  It is a responsibility to have faith and to speak faith and to live faith.