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.