My post today is entitled “730 Straight Days Discussing Jesus!” It’s about a Bible passage I never noticed before in Acts 19:8-10. The writer of Acts wrote about Paul the following:
“Paul entered the synagogue and spoke boldly over a period of three months, arguing and persuading them about the kingdom of God. But when some became hardened and would not believe, slandering the Way in front of the crowd, he withdrew from them, taking the disciples, and conducted discussions every day in the lecture hall of Tyrannus. This went on for two years, so that all the residents of Asia, both Jews and Greeks, heard the word of the Lord.”The story is that Paul came to Ephesus and spoke in the synagogue for three months, but he began to encounter opposition there. So he “took up his marbles and ran”—uh—I mean that “he took the disciples with him” and went to another part of the city. He took them to the Tyrannus Lecture Hall. I’m assuming he went there because he could speak more freely about Jesus there without religious opposition from synagogue leaders..
I had never noticed before, however, that he had spoken every day there for TWO YEARS—730 DAYS! Can you imagine going somewhere to discuss Jesus daily for that long? Now that I’m retired, I have a lot of time on my hands, so I’m being honest with you, I, in a way, actually long for that type of experience, where a portion of each day would be devoted to going to a specific place to talk about Jesus.
Let’s face it: We all have family and other obligations that would prohibit this type of encounter for so long, especially in today’s world. But, I think it’s fun to think and dream about what it would be like to spend—
‘730 Straight Days Discussing Jesus!’
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