07.10.2014 New Testament: Acts 16.11–13

To read the Bible in a year, read Acts 16.1–15 on July 10, In the year of our Lord 2014

By Don Ruhl

How important are souls to the Lord? He created them, and He wants to redeem them, but He does so through our work. Watch Paul and his friends as they traveled, looking for souls,

Therefore, sailing from Troas, we ran a straight course to Samothrace, and the next day came to Neapolis, and from there to Philippi, which is the foremost city of that part of Macedonia, a colony. And we were staying in that city for some days. And on the Sabbath day we went out of the city to the riverside, where prayer was customarily made; and we sat down and spoke to the women who met there (Acts 16.11–13). 

Even if you do not know the locations of those places, and the distances between them, and the means of travel, you still get the picture of Paul and company moving about, until they found a place where they knew spiritual people would be, and then the apostle spoke the word of God to them.

What do the souls of other people mean to you?