It’s difficult to say

Mary’s home

Streets of ancient Ephesus

Toilets

Library of Celsius

Marketplace

John’s home

Temple of Artemis

The Great Theater is where the events of

Acts 19:23-41 took place.

A silversmith by the name of Demetrius started a riot

against Paul for speaking out against Artemis.

That wasn’t difficult to say.

We saw the bathhouse

and the gymnasium that Roman citizens used.

We saw the hospital.

We saw where the council would have met

that exiled John to Patmos.

Exactly where it was

All that took place

Was it that ruin

Or that ruin

It’s difficult to say

But because it’s difficult to say

Doesn’t mean it’s not

Impossible to believe

What’s possible to believe?

Those writings in Ephesians

I do not cease to give thanks for you,

remembering you in my prayers,

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ,

the Father of glory,

may give you the Spirit of wisdom

and of revelation in the knowledge of him,

having the eyes of your hearts enlightened,

that you may know what is the hope

to which he has called you,

what are the riches of his

glorious inheritance in the saints…



It’s difficult to say

How an elementary school girl

Invited her classmate boy to church

And the classmate boys asked his dad

To take him and the dad

Called himself an atheist

Until his son wanted to start

Reading the Bible together

And keep going to church together

Until one day the father believed.



It’s difficult to say

How a young lady living

On the east coast

Gets invited to church by a friend

And within a few weeks of attending

Alpha and church

Decides to follow Jesus

And ends up back on the west coast

And finds home at our church.



Just because it’s difficult to say

Doesn’t mean it’s impossible to believe.

history is not always easy to understand

to retrace steps is a mysterious puzzle

it’s difficult to say.

but an eyewitness account

someone telling you their personal story

that’s possible to believe.

i love history and mystery.

but what God is doing in me and you right now -

that’s not impossible to believe!

i bless you to tell your story this week.

someone needs to hear it from you

to believe it for themselves.

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