Some thoughts on the sample of three people impacted by the Gospel in Phillipi in Acts 16 from J.D. Greear.
It’s wonderful too, to realise that these three very different people all found themselves in one Christian community because of Jesus.
Acts 16 contains the stories of three people who were unlikely candidates for the growing Christian movement. There must have been dozens more people there who came to faith, but Luke (the author of Acts) chose to write about just three—a rich religious woman, a slave girl, and a jailor. Why these three?
That’s a question we should always ask when reading the Bible: Why did the author include this? In this case, Luke records these stories to drive home that the gospel really is for everybody. The three people in Philippi represent the three types of people we find all around us—and show us how can we engage them with the gospel.
+++1. Lydia: The Spiritually Interested
2. Slave Girl: The Physical and Spiritual Captive
3. Jailor: The Skeptic+++
The spiritually interested needs to be confronted with the Word of God.
The spiritually captive needs to encounter someone willing to love them.
And the spiritual skeptic needs to see grace before he will listen to it.Read the whole post (with explanations of the three people) here.
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