Jesus Wants to Save Christians: A Manifesto for the Church in Exile by Rob Bell & Don Golden

Author:Rob Bell & Don Golden [Bell, Rob]
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780310275022
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2008-09-21T11:00:00+00:00

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his first followers that they’ll be witnesses. Paul is now with the Roman Jews

“explaining about the kingdom of God, and from the Law of Moses and from

the Prophets.”55 And from Moses and the Prophets is, of course, how Jesus

explained himself to the disciples on the road to Emmaus.

Paul is gathered with the religious leaders, trying to “persuade them about

Jesus.” He doesn’t first go to the Gentiles; he goes to the religious faithful,

he attends their gatherings, he speaks to them in their language. Paul does

this because he knows that if the church gets converted, the whole world will

follow.

And then Luke wraps up the story of Acts: “For two whole years Paul stayed

there in his own rented house and welcomed all who came to see him. He

proclaimed the kingdom of God and taught about the Lord Jesus Christ – with

all boldness and without hindrance!”56

Luke ends his account with Paul, miles from Jerusalem, at the center of a

thoroughly non-Jewish world, sharing the message with whoever is interested.

He “welcomed all who came to see him.”

All.

That’s who this Jesus is for.

Even soaking-wet genital-free Africans riding home in chariots.

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