This is what was quoted by you of me:
Originally Posted by Pliny View Post
If you are referring to the post concerning Apollos, the synagogue has everything to do with it. Its called context. Apollos was at the synagogue and this is where Aquila and Priscilla saw him. AFTERWARDS they spoke with him. See that? Priscilla was not a leader of the synagogue. Indeed she could NOT be. This husband and wife met with Apollos privately - it was not a church service where Priscilla had stepped out of the created order and was teaching Apollos. THEY were witnessing to him.
The difference that seems to elude so many is the difference between a formal teaching event characterized by the assembly of the body and a private moment between people. The difference between a pastor teaching and people witnessing. The elders are to feed the flock, that is with the word of God. Those elders, by qualification, are men.
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Originally Posted by Sasha
Was Apollos a leader of the synagogue? And where do you get your ideas above? Paul never said any of those things....that witnessing had to be done outside of the synagogue and there is a difference in formal teaching and private moments with teaching. Sounds pretty silly to say that it's ok for me to privately teach a man about the word of God, but I can't do it in a church.
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Its called context and exegesis. Here is the passage:
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Act 18:24 KJV) And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria,
an eloquent man, and mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus.
This verse tells us Apollos was very knowledgeable in the scriptures. What do you think "mighty in the scriptures" means? He was well versed in them. Therefore what could Aquilla and Priscilla teach him? The next verse tells us:
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Act 18:25 KJV) This man was instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in the spirit, he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord, knowing only the baptism of John.
He was a disciple of John the Baptist. John the Baptist pointed men to Christ. Apollos needed to know who Christ was.
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Act 18:26 KJV) And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly.
Apollos was speaking in the synagogue and Aquila and Priscilla heard him. "They took him unto them", what do you suppose that means? It means they met with him privately.
BTW I did not say Apollos was a leader of the synagogue. I said he was there teaching/preaching and Aquila and Priscilla heard him there. They did not interrupt him. The took him. This is singular and alone, they took him not the synagogue and explained the "way" that is they explained that Jesus was the fulfillment of John's preaching.
I really don't care how silly someone thinks the Bible is. For you to say:
"it's ok for me to privately teach a man about the word of God, but I can't do it in a church."
Tells me you do not understand the difference between the bishop feeding the flock and witnessing. It is this spirit that caused Miriam to be struck with leprosy.
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