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NASB | Acts 8:4 ¶ Therefore, those who had been scattered went about preaching the word. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Acts 8:4 ¶ Now those [believers] who had been scattered went from place to place preaching the word [the good news of salvation through Christ]. |
Bible Question: How might I use these verses to apply to today's world. This is where Saul was persecuting the Christians and they scattered to other places. Thus, the spread of the Word. Philip went to Samaria and many were converted. Does anyone feel this could be related to the split of a church, where another church is formed and more are added through the new church? I am thinking there is a correlation there. |
Bible Answer: reasonr: The Great Commission of our Lord (Matthew 28:19,20) is no less binding on His followers today than when it first came from the lips of Jesus. We err if we think that the call to preach the message of the Gospel of Christ applies only to the exotic far-away lands of the planet. There are literally thousands if not millions of people in the United States who know nothing about Scripture, nothing of what they must do to be saved and have no awareness even that they are lost. They have never heard a Gospel sermon in their lives, and no one has preached Christ to them. If they don't attend church services in a Bible-teaching orthodox church, and don't come from Christian families, where are they to hear the Gospel message? We have taken God and His word and prayer out of schools and public places. We live in a largely pagan society. Their exposure to televangelists by and large gives them a distorted and false picture of biblical Christianity. ..... For two millennia Christians have been persecuted on account of their faith in and allegiance to Jesus Christ. The effects of religious persecution are by no means always negative as the history of the church attests. The splitting of church bodies which you mention can be good or bad, depending on the reasons that spurred the split. --Hank |
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