Wednesday After Eighteenth Sunday After Trinity Acts 19:1-20

WEDNESDAY AFTER EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY Many of those who were now believers came, confessing and divulging their practices. Acts 19:18 + Ephesus, which is in ruins today, used to be the fourth largest city in the Roman Empire. There were already the beginnings of a church here under the leadership the learned Apollos, who was instructed by the tentmaker Aquila, or probably even more so by his wife, Priscilla. In the ancient church, everyone realized their duty to bring others to the faith. Only men appeared in public as teachers, according to the commandment of God, but in private it was not only a right but a duty for a Christian—man or woman—to clearly show the way of God when someone found that another Christian lacked the necess ... continue reading