Paul Passes It On - September 21, 2010

Daily Lectionary Readings For September 21, 2010
Psalm 14
Esther 5:1-14
Acts 18:12-28
Luke 3:15-22

Acts 18:12-28
In the early verses of this passage we get glimpses of Paul traveling and nurturing, revisiting places where churches have been planted and tending to them.  In vs.24-28 we meet Apollos, an example of the fruit of all that planting and nurturing and tending.  Apollos is learning the Way of God.  He is enthusiastic and ready to share what he knows, but is also ready to learn more.  Enter Priscilla and Aqulla, traveling companions and folks who have learned from Paul and who now pass their learning on to Apollos.  The passage concludes with Apollos replicating the process by traveling to Achaia and becoming a powerful messenger of Jesus as Messiah.  We watch how discipleship worked in the early church and we see how it can work in the church today.  We get excited about our relationship with God, we listen to those who have traveled ahead of us and now share lessons about the journey with us and we travel on, eventually reaching the point where we may also look back and become guides to the next group of folks who will become excited about a relationship with God.