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- Read with OneWay
- OneWay is the youth group at Brookview Church in Lynnwood, Washington. The purpose of this blog is to provide an online community to keep us accountable in reading the bible on a daily basis. The Word of God is alive and powerful (Heb 4:12). Let's examine it together and see for ourselves the truth and power that it holds!
Wow! Chapter 8 & 9 are action packed! I don't know if any of you have ever read Acts before, but i JUST noticed this interesting part for the first time:
ReplyDeleteActs 8:39 "When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord snatched Philip away. The eunuch never saw him again but went on his way rejoicing. 40 Meanwhile, Philip found himself farther north at the town of Azotus. He preached the Good News there and in every town along the way until he came to Caesarea."
How crazy is that? It's like science fiction, but reality! Philip actually got swept away and found himself in another town.
Does anyone have any questions about Saul/Paul and his story? He is the main character in this book going forward so we'll want to understand him well.
In acts 10:9-15 Peter suddenly becomes hungry, Jesus shows him a vision of animals on a sheet coming down from heaven and Jesus says to kill and eat. However Peter believes that the animals are unclean and common and refuses to eat them. Jesus then says that anything the lord has made clean you must not call common.
ReplyDeleteI don't understand why Peter would think that the animals were unclean, if they came from the lord how would they not be clean?
Hi Ben, good question. In the old testament the Jewish people had to follow a series of strict laws that were given to them by God through their leader Moses. Most of the laws seemed very extreme, but they were really just to keep the people from harm. One of those laws was that they were not supposed to eat certain kinds of 'unclean' meats. These unclean meats were meat that is not really healthy (ie pork etc). Jews still follow that law to this day.
ReplyDeleteSo when Peter is having his vision, it's saying two things: One, Jesus is giving us the freedom to eat what we'd like - it might not all be healthy, but we get to choose. Two, the vision represents Christianity being available to Jews and Gentiles (the rest of us:) alike!
Does that make sense? This is a very difficult topic, so if you have more questions, we can definitely discuss!
yeah that makes alot of sense, alex explained it too me also and I understand the meaning of it now
ReplyDeleteCool, that's great Ben!
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