“Apollos, an eloquent speaker, was an authority on the Scriptures. He had been instructed in the Way of the Lord and, with ardent spirit, spoke and taught accurately about Jesus, although he knew only the baptism of John” (Acts 18:24-25). St. Paul also mentions Apollos in his letter to the Corinthians so he must have been an important figure among those early Christians. Some scholars even speculate that Apollos was the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews. His story reminds us that the birth pangs of the faith were messy, not the straight line of Jesus, the Apostles, Paul, to Rome that St. Luke described. We should not be surprised that the growth of the Faith in our own day is messy as well.
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By Church Staff
