The Word Revealed at Kenwood

Luke details the journey and how it is a bit of a farewell tour for Paul.

What ministry looks like. Flexibility in ministry. Speak the truth and don't back down. Preach the whole message of God and don't pick and choose.

We walk and travel in time with Paul. He teaches about humility and tears of a pastor.

The offering of the nations to Jerusalem is both monetary and one of the people of the nations - fruit of missions

The Gospel is always bad for certain businesses! Paul wants to go into the theatre to make a defense of Jesus. His companions urge him not to go. The Spirit keeps Paul quiet. The Gospel frees us from unholy attachments. Great is our Lord Jesus!!

Don't mess with evil, don't take the name of Jesus as some magic word. Clear the bad from your life as they did with the burning of the books. Prevail through the Word of God.

We are blessed to have a guest who is a missionary in Mongolia who is himself Mongolian. We cover his church's outreach to Buddhists in that part of Asia as well as the many camps used to spread the gospel.

The book of Acts is descriptive rather than prescriptive.   Prescriptive passages are those that advise or instruct what should happen. These passages provide explicit and specific instruction for the believer to live out. An example of prescriptive passages include the epistles. But descriptive passages are those that describe what has happened this is what Acts is.

Apollos - Who is he? - Eloquent, trained in scriptures, teaching but still learning

There is a lot that happens in this chapter. Read it carefully. 

The Word continues to spread through a number of people. This is near the end of the second missionary journey. Listen to S02 E29, there is another reference to Claudius in more detail.

Greek philosophy of the day. Paul is where the people are - tells God's story about the human family.  All are called to believe.

The middle of Paul's second journey. They meet with people from different backgrounds who realize they need a savior.

Michael discusses the work of Bill Glass Ministries in prisons and the impact on these lives that scripture has. 

Philippi is the first Christian church in Europe. The uproar after Paul's preaching lands the group in jail. Even that ends  up being for the good as it was in God's will.

Theirs is a cross-cultural ministry. Jesus has fulfilled the promises to both the circumcised and uncircumcised. The Holy Spirit opens doors and closes them!

The Jerusalem Council and how they resolved the conflict with compromise and scripture.

We see them evangelizing as they travel. They don't force the conversation but meet the people where they are. We see we shouldn't elevate Christian leaders too high.

The pastors chat about Paul's first missionary journey.

The pastors discuss the composition of the new leadership team at Antioch. Among the new leaders are Paul and Barnabas who are called by God to be set apart for his use. The leadership team disperses geographically to share the gospel with the world.

Herod Agrippa 1 and others begin to persecute the Christian Church. James is killed and Peter is imprisoned.

The acceptance by the church at Jerusalem of the gentiles. The expansion of the outreach and the renaming of The Way to Christians 

Peter and Cornelius story continued and the conversion of Cornelius and his household.

Luke describes Peter's actions in Acts including Tabatha and Cornelius.