October 27, 2013 · Acts 16:11–15

Lydia - Acts 16:11-15

“Lydia's house is a church. … The first church in Europe, and we don't know, the church doesn't probably grow very big. People think maybe 75 to 100 people. In this town of 15,000, it's like a church of 75 to 100 in a neighborhood like this. It doesn't seem very important, and yet this church punches above its weight. This is a Holy Spirit-filled church. To the point that when Paul writes to Corinthians, remember this? … Paul writes them and he's oh by the way, I just want to let the church in Philippi with its hundred people have raised a lot of money for the poor people in Jerusalem. Meanwhile the Corinthian church, this huge church, it's not there. Paul realizes that what's happening in Philippi is a very special thing. … He leaves Dr. Luke in Philippi, it seems, to help build things there. … The church in Corinth might be a mega church, but that church in Lydia's house helps keep him going.”