The Spirit Explodes 17
Jun 14th, 2014 by davegroberts

The Spirit Explodes
Part 17 of 22
The magnificent couple
Acts18:1–28
by Roger Kirby
Corinth was an unpromising place. It was more important than Athens in all except cultural matters. It was a seaport on the narrow isthmus of land between southern and northern Greece (as we call it now). It was a vigorous commercial centre notorious for loose living. Yet it proved to be more receptive to the Gospel than many other quieter cities.
Read Acts 18:1 – 4.
This passage tells us more about what Paul did than we have been told previously. All Jewish men, however study minded, were expected to learn a trade. Paul was a worker in canvas and leather, probably cutting and stitching at a bench or sitting cross-legged with them in a small open fronted shop in the street of the tent-makers. The three of them, working together, would have had many opportunities to chat with the passers by and tell them about Jesus.
Question 1: What are the advantages and disadvantages in working while also being a pastor or evangelist?
Read Acts 18:5 – 11
Question 2: What about where you are? Does the Lord have many people in your city, as yet unrecognized as Christians as is implied in Corinth? Have you any assurance about that?
Read Acts 18:12 – 17.
Read Acts 18:18 – 23.
Paul clearly has a high regard for Priscilla and Aquila, taking them with him as he sailed across to Ephesus. Note that they are referred to as Priscilla and Aquila, with the woman mentioned first, as she is in all but one of the remaining 5 places where they are mentioned.
Question 3: What would you infer from that?
Read Acts 18:24 – 28.
Question 4: How can we avoid that sort of human weakness?
Apollos knew all about Jesus but there was something short in what he knew. He is described as ‘knowing only the baptism of John’ which may imply that he did not have the gift that baptism in the name of Jesus represented.
Question 5: if that is so, what is it implied that he did not have, that was much more important than a mere matter of baptism?
What a grand couple Priscilla and Aquila were!
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