We might headline Acts 16: Together with Paul in Europe. As a result of a vision he sails across the Aegean to Greece. He can’t operate as he had in the past, by starting to preach in the Jewish synagogues. He needs a new missionary strategy. “On the Sabbath we went outside the city gate along the river where we thought there would be a place of prayer.” (Did you notice the “we?” The author of Acts, St. Luke, is now providing first hand testimony.) Paul finds a receptive convert in Lydia, a rich business women of the area. In this environment he accepts an invitation to a woman’s house, against all custom, because the new situation requires missionary flexibility outside his normal comfort zone.
MAY222017
By Church Staff
