Daily Devotion
Christianity was for Everyone in Every Country
Created: Thursday, 26 July 2018 19:13
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Scripture:
ACTS 15:1-12
This is one of Luke's aims. The Jews found it hard to grasp. They had the idea that they were God's chosen people and that God had no use for any other nation. Luke sets out to prove otherwise. He shows Philip preaching to the Samaritans; he shows Stephen making Christianity universal and being killed for it; he shows Peter accepting Cornelius into the Church; he shows the Christians preaching to the Gentiles at Antioch; he shows Paul traveling far and wide winning men of all backgrounds for Jesus. In Acts 15, he shows the Church making the great decision to accept Gentiles on equal terms with the Jews.
But these were merely secondary aims. Luke's chief purpose is set out in the words of the Risen Christ in 1:8, "You shall be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and to the end of the earth." It was to show the expansion of Christianity, to show how that religion that began in a little corner of Palestine had, in not much more than thirty years, reached Rome.
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Life Application:
What is it like in your church? Is there growth? Are new people coming in, and are you leading people to Jesus?
Praise/Prayer:
Dear Father, it is so exciting to read in the Book of Acts about miracles, healings, people being saved and the Gospel spreading all over that world. Oh, Father, we need a need a move of the Holy Spirit today to reach our world. I pray that You will raise up people who will have a desire to see people saved here in America and all over the world. Amen
