So Philip went down the road from Jerusalem to Gaza. 

Wow, if that doesn't carry powerful imagery. I don't know what all it could have meant for Luke or Philip, but I know what it means for us. The road from Jerusalem to Gaza is probably the most critical road in the world—the road which symbolizes all the tensions and conflict of our world; the road most needed and hardest to travel; the road on which the future of the world seems to hang; the road which symbolizes the difficult path to peace in our world today. 

Luke says it was a "desert road" and, unfortunately, it still is. Desert…and deserted. It is a hard road to travel, but it is the path to reconciliation, to justice, to peace. 

And there he met an Ethiopian. 

It's quite amazing, really, this African tourist, a black governmen…