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Further Thought: For the relationship between personal conversion and the church, read Ellen G. White, “Individual Independence”, pp. 430-434, in Testimonies for the Church, vol. 3 .
Read more at the source: Friday: Further Thought – Paul: Apostle to the Gentiles
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Of course, nothing human is perfect, and it wasn’t long before trouble began within the early community of faith. For starters, not everyone was pleased with the entry of Gentile believers into the early church. Image © Standard Publishing from GoodSalt.com The disagreement was not over the concept of a Gentile mission, but over the basis on which Gentiles should be allowed to join. Some felt that faith in Jesus alone was not sufficient as the defining mark of the Christian; faith, they argued, must be supplemented with circumcision and obedience to the law of Moses. To be a true Christian, they asserted, Gentiles needed to be circumcised
Read more at the source: Thursday: Conflict Within the Church
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During Saul’s encounter with Jesus, he was blinded and then instructed to go to the house of a man named Judas and to wait there for another man, Ananias. No doubt Saul’s physical blindness was a powerful reminder of the greater spiritual blindness that led him to persecute the followers of Jesus
Read more at the source: Tuesday: Saul in Damascus
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Image © Lifeway Collection Goodsalt.com Saul of Tarsus first appears in Acts as one involved in the stoning of Stephen ( Acts 7:58 ) and then in connection with the more wide-scale persecution that broke out in Jerusalem ( Acts 8:1-5 ) . Peter, Stephen, Philip, and Paul play a significant role in the book of Acts because they were involved in events that led to the spread of the Christian faith beyond the Jewish world. Stephen is of particular significance because his preaching and martyrdom appear to have had a profound influence on Saul of Tarsus. Stephen himself was a Greek-speaking Jew, and one of the original seven deacons ( Acts 6:3-6 ) . According to Acts, a group of Greek-speaking Jews who had come to live in Jerusalem ( Acts 6:9 ) entered into a dispute with Stephen over the content of his preaching about Jesus
Read more at the source: Sunday: Persecutor of Christians
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Image © Pacific Press from GoodSalt.com Read for This Week’s Study: Acts 6:9-15 , Acts 9:1-9 , 1 Sam. 16:7 , Matt. 7:1 , Acts 11:19-21 , Acts 15:1-5 .
Read more at the source: Sabbath: Paul – Apostle to the Gentiles
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