This Sunday,
September 10, is the Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost.
Verse of the
Rally Day Season:
This week’s
sermon is: "Like Children"
This week's
readings are :
Message
Things You Didn’t Learn In Sunday School About … Priscilla
and Aquila
You may or may not have heard about them – important, but not
major figures.
Acts 18 – They were Jews who were expelled from Rome by
Claudius Caesar – all the Jews.
They
went to Corinth, and while they were there, they met Paul.
They
were tentmakers – and Paul joined them as that was his trade as well.
They
became partners in the Gospel
They
traveled with him.
They heard Apollos, who played an important role in the early church, and they took him aside to, “explain the way of God more accurately.” Esp. regarding Baptism.
Paul includes them
in the greetings at the ends of three letters.
To them in Romans
16
From them in 1
Corinthians 16
To them in 2
Timothy 4
They are an example of the Partnership of Christian Marriage
Husband
and wife are meant to walk together in faith.
They
home was a place of witness – the case with Apollos – and that is true for all
Christian homes, married or no!
Purpose
outside of self – important for all, but maybe less intuitively in marriage.
They are an example of the importance of vocation.
Vocation
– Work and Relationship
It opened
up opportunity for partnership.
They
were blessed to support the ministry of spreading the Gospel.
Their
work put them where they could share the Gospel.
They are an example of normal people living by faith.
Paul –
and his team!
Apollos
Testimony
to many through their work, troubles, life.
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