Acts 11:19-30
In this sermon, I suggest that we as a community of believers begin to look for more guidance from the Holy Spirit, even more so than scripture...
How come no one names their boys Agabus?
I searched babynames.com
And there were two boy names that began A.G.A. - Agamemnon, and Agapito...no Agabus...
Agabus...I don't know that I'd really ever heard the name Agabus ‘til this past week reading the scripture we’re looking at this morning.
I've even done the whole bible in a year thing.
I guess, the name Agabus had never really stood out...
nor his role in the formation of the early Christian community.
But it did this week:
Back when the church was not a building....
there was Agabus the prophet.
Let's see what he's up to...SCRIPTURE
The early community of Jesus followers,
as we've seen in this summer series on Acts, has been in the process of discovering who they are:
- A people with a particular calling - following Jesus and sharing his message,
- led by the Holy Spirit they find they are being pushed beyond the bounds of what they thought this mission was about.
I wonder why this theme of pushing the disciples out beyond their comfort zones happens over and over again in Acts?
In this sermon, I suggest that we as a community of believers begin to look for more guidance from the Holy Spirit, even more so than scripture...
How come no one names their boys Agabus?
I searched babynames.com
And there were two boy names that began A.G.A. - Agamemnon, and Agapito...no Agabus...
Agabus...I don't know that I'd really ever heard the name Agabus ‘til this past week reading the scripture we’re looking at this morning.
I've even done the whole bible in a year thing.
I guess, the name Agabus had never really stood out...
nor his role in the formation of the early Christian community.
But it did this week:
Back when the church was not a building....
there was Agabus the prophet.
Let's see what he's up to...SCRIPTURE
The early community of Jesus followers,
as we've seen in this summer series on Acts, has been in the process of discovering who they are:
- A people with a particular calling - following Jesus and sharing his message,
- led by the Holy Spirit they find they are being pushed beyond the bounds of what they thought this mission was about.
I wonder why this theme of pushing the disciples out beyond their comfort zones happens over and over again in Acts?
