v3 Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to house…
What does this imply about who/what/where the church is?
v4 ‘those who had been scattered preached the word wherever they went’ – what would this look like today? when would be a time not to scatter but to stay?
v8 ‘there was great joy in that city’ what would it look like to bring joy to an entire city?
v9-24 Simon the sorcerer – baptized believer – but wanted the power to be able to lay hands on others to receive the Holy Spirit. What did Simon do wrong?
Are there good an honorable things you long for, that you’re not ready for? that God would say no to? that would in some way trace its roots in sin?
Continuing along in the Scriptures through Hebrews 8
- Hebrews talks about how in the past the priest and the sanctuary were simply a shadow of what is in heaven and something far superior was coming. I wonder if some of the things we do are still simply ‘shadows’ of the real thing?
- It’s interesting how God says that his ‘new covenant’ will not be like the old, where he ‘led them by the hand’, that maybe there’s something better than direct handholding of God?
- It’s amazing how it describes God putting prints of himself directly on the hearts and minds of people. I guess to what degree we accept that is a different question, but He’s already right here, within every person in some way.
