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Series: UnStoppable - Acts
Tim Badal
Acts 20:17-38
It's a pleasure to have you with us. Please turn in God's Word to the book of Acts as we continue in our ''Unstoppable'' Series. We've been looking at Luke's account of the early church, seeing how God used people to change their world. Through the power of the Holy Spirit and through our own perseverance and faith, we too can effect great changes through the gospel of Jesus Christ, not only in our own lives, but in the lives of those around us. We see from their example how an ordinary group of people can do extraordinary things with the help of an extraordinary God.
This morning we'll pick up in Acts 20, where we'll be reading about Paul's third missionary journey. He's been moving from city to city in Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey) and into ancient Macedonia (now Greece). In today's passage, Paul was in the city of Miletus, on the coast of Asia Minor near the Aegean Sea, where he met with a group of elders from the church he had started in Ephesus.
Earlier Paul had gone back to many of the churches he had planted, helping them with their problems and encouraging them. But this visit in Miletus was different. Paul was on his way to Jerusalem to carry a gift he had collected from all the Gentile churches to give to the Jewish congregation in Jerusalem. These people were in great need due to a long famine.. Even though he was hurrying to get to them, Paul stopped in Miletus and called for the Ephesian elders to meet him there. He had some important things he needed to tell them. He was aware that this would be the last opportunity he would have to say goodbye to these men, as his next journey would be to Rome which proved to be his last trip as he was eventually martyred there for his faith.
Paul especially loved the church in Ephesus as he had stayed there longer than he stayed in any other city, with the exception of Corinth. We will be reading his farewell address ...
Series: UnStoppable - Acts
Tim Badal
Acts 20:17-38
It's a pleasure to have you with us. Please turn in God's Word to the book of Acts as we continue in our ''Unstoppable'' Series. We've been looking at Luke's account of the early church, seeing how God used people to change their world. Through the power of the Holy Spirit and through our own perseverance and faith, we too can effect great changes through the gospel of Jesus Christ, not only in our own lives, but in the lives of those around us. We see from their example how an ordinary group of people can do extraordinary things with the help of an extraordinary God.
This morning we'll pick up in Acts 20, where we'll be reading about Paul's third missionary journey. He's been moving from city to city in Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey) and into ancient Macedonia (now Greece). In today's passage, Paul was in the city of Miletus, on the coast of Asia Minor near the Aegean Sea, where he met with a group of elders from the church he had started in Ephesus.
Earlier Paul had gone back to many of the churches he had planted, helping them with their problems and encouraging them. But this visit in Miletus was different. Paul was on his way to Jerusalem to carry a gift he had collected from all the Gentile churches to give to the Jewish congregation in Jerusalem. These people were in great need due to a long famine.. Even though he was hurrying to get to them, Paul stopped in Miletus and called for the Ephesian elders to meet him there. He had some important things he needed to tell them. He was aware that this would be the last opportunity he would have to say goodbye to these men, as his next journey would be to Rome which proved to be his last trip as he was eventually martyred there for his faith.
Paul especially loved the church in Ephesus as he had stayed there longer than he stayed in any other city, with the exception of Corinth. We will be reading his farewell address ...
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