Sentences with phrase «ethiopian eunuch»

Clearly, there were others traveling with the Ethiopian Eunuch who would have seen him get baptized, would have asked him about it on their journey back to Ethiopia, and would have observed his life and actions to see what differences (if any) followed as a result of the Eunuch fully identifying himself with Jesus.

If this Ethiopian Eunuch was all alone and far away from home, then nobody would have seen or known what he did on this deserted road in Israel, and therefore, his baptism could not have been a public testimony to anyone.

To be sure, the deacon Philip had converted and baptized the first gentile in the person of the Ethiopian eunuch.

Philip encountered the Ethiopian eunuch in a most unlikely place and converted him to Christianity.

I can't help but think of the Ethiopian eunuch from Acts 8.

- he responded only by following the Ethiopian eunuch to the water and baptizing him in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

It is one of Gods requirements we be baptised Jesus said it and the disciples in Acts did it the Ethiopian Eunuch demanded it and Philip was pleased to carry it out.

It uses the example of Philip baptising an Ethiopian eunuch even though Jewish theology at the time would not have deemed him worthy of it due to his status as a foreigner and a eunuch.

Then, the Spirit called Phillip to go south and he met the Ethiopian eunuch and preached the gospel to him and baptized him.

The baptism of the Ethiopian Eunuch was a public demonstration that he was making a change in his life and was fully identifying himself with Jesus Christ.

When Philip In Acts 8 had finished teaching the Ethiopian Eunuch about Jesus from the old testament till the present moment why did Philip baptise him with water if all it took was belief in Jesus?

Oh, I do actually have one more thing to say about baptism in Acts, which I will post tomorrow when we look at the baptism of the Ethiopian Eunuch.

Can you imagine Philip reducing the Ethiopian eunuch to his anatomy or Peter the gentile Christians to the food they ate?

Philip reinterprets Isaiah 53 to the Ethiopian eunuch as speaking of Christ (Acts 7:30 - 35).

It was he who had first won converts among the Samaritans and had baptized the Ethiopian eunuch.

Some scholars hold that the Hellenist Christians of Acts 6:1 were Gentiles, and not, as has been generally assumed, Greek - speaking Jews; neither the Ethiopian eunuch (Acts 8:26 ff.)

to those who, like Philip with the Ethiopian eunuch in Acts 8, helped others to understand it and apply it to their own lives.»

Student Minister Pam Bakker preached on Acts 8:26 - 40 — the story of Philip's encounter with the Ethiopian eunuch.

I think also of the Ethiopian eunuch (from Acts 8), a man who was ethnically and sexually «other,» who was welcomed and baptized without question or hesitation into the early church, but who would no doubt fail all of Mark Driscoll's rigid categories for a what makes «real man» were he a part of the American evangelical church today.

The Bible speaks to us just as it did to the Ethiopian eunuch.

It claims descent from the Ethiopian eunuch converted by Philip in Acts 8, and dates formally to the preaching of Frumentius in the early fourth century and the acceptance of Christianity in A.D. 330.

(Mark 16:16 Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved...) NIV 1973) The Ethiopian eunuch heard the good news about Jesus before he was baptized.

If this is some biblical analogy, Lentz has become Philip and Justin Bieber is the Ethiopian eunuch (we might need to leave that particular piece of imagery there).