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?By Mrs. Clara B. Lawrence! Sunday School Lesson I Subject: Appollos: A Learning Teacher August 1,1982 Lesson Scripture Sincere but Ignorant Acts 18:24,25 Equipped and Effective Acts 18:28,28 Leaderin Perspective I Corinthians 3:5-9 w Background Scripture * Acts 19:7; I. Cor. 1:10-17; 4:6; Acts 18:24-26 Lesson Background Tne apostle Paul had been preaching Christ at Th' .salonica, Berea and Athens. Departing from Athens he went to Corinth where he met Aquilla and Priscilla who were tentmakers. While Paul labored with his hands as tent marker, he also preached. He was encouraged in a vision by a voice saying, “Be not afraid, but speak and hold not thy peace.” So he remained there 18 months teaching the word of God. The majority of the Jews rejected his message, but he continued his ministry to the Gentiles in the home of a man named Justus (Acts 18:6-7). Aquilla and Priscilla later sailed with Paul to Ephesus. “And he left them there: but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews,” (vs. 19). They wanted him to remain longer, but he explained that he needed to go to Jerusalem to keep the Jewish Feast there. He promised to return. Lesson Explained I Acts 18:23 tells us that after Paul had 9 visisted his home rhtirrh -in Antioch, ho began to plan his third missionary journey. But then Luke interrupted that narrative to introduce Apollos. Apollos was a Jew, born in Alexandria, Egypt. He went to Ephesus to speak in the synagogue about the Lord. But when he spoke, some Christian Jews noted that he knew “only the baptism of —John.—He—had—missed -the—meaning of Christian baptism as reflected the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus. He did not know about the descent of the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost. But note, his ministry was soon to take on a new dimension, (vss. 24, 25). When Aquilla and Priscilla, Paul’s fellow workers from Corinth, heard him speak, they were impressed by his knowledge and " eloquence, but were concerned about his limited knowledge of the Scripture. They therefore took him into their own home to teach him “the way of God more perfectly.” (vs. 26). When Apollos had increased his know ledge about the way of God he wanted to move on to the Greek Peninsula in Corinth. So his friends in Ephesus wrote a letter to —the followers of Chrjst thereT urging them to accept him as a brother in faith, Apollos was able to strengthen believers’ faith through encouragement. Because he was willtngto learn, he became more effective in declaring the complete gospel of salva tion by grace, (vss. 27-28). In the last part of our Scripture we find Paul continuing his argument for together ness in the Christian church. While both he and Apollos had their followers, they were only “ministers” who had led believers to Christ. They had worked only as God had assigned them, (vs. 5). Paul had served as the pioneer for the gospel at Corinth; Apollos had come along to develop what Paul had done. But God deserved the glory for the increase in numbers or in spiritual growth, (vss. 6-7). Emphasis is placed on oneness in service as Paul and Apollos were concerned, because both were working for the same purpose: to preach the gospel in order that it might change the lives and eternal destines of people. Verse 8 explains that rewards received by individual servants will vary according to his works and the motive underlying his works. Finally, Paul asserted that the Corin thians had the same status, which seems to be implying that they had no authority to exalt a fellow laborer to a super human status, (vss. 8-9). Closing Summary It is high praise for Apollos, when our lesson title calls him a “Learning Teach er,” for “learning teachers” are in short supply. 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