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Acts chapter 18, verse 26. He began to speak boldly in the synagogue. But when Priscilla and

Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained to him the way of God more accurately. What a great verse describing

Apollos here. So just the setup, a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, had come to Ephesus.

He was eloquent, competent in the scriptures. Acts 1824 says.

Verse 25 says he had been instructed in the way of the Lord and being fervent in spirit.

He spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, though he knew only the baptism of

John. So we won't go into all the details here just for the sake of time of what that

would mean for Apollo's teaching, but the reality is at this point he was fervent in spirit,

competent in the scriptures, and yet his understanding of certain things was incomplete. So what did

Priscilla and Aquila do when they heard him, they took him aside

and explained to him the way of God more accurately. What a great picture that teaches us so many

different things and leads us to pray in so many different ways. Like, we all have room to grow, areas where we don't understand everything completely,

rightly, even accurately.

And God puts us in the church, in his body, with his word, where when we begin to teach or say things

that don't align with this word, we have brothers and sisters around us who will pull us back and say,

no, no, look at what the word says here. And not in a way that is harmful or unhelpful. This is so constructive here.

They pull him aside. They have a conversation with him. He receives that. In fact, you go on.

It says in verse 27, when he wished to cross to Akaya, the brothers encouraged him, wrote to the

disciples to welcome him when he arrived. He greatly helped those who through grace had believed,

for he powerfully refuted the Jews in public, showing by the scriptures that the Christ was Jesus.

Oh, see how Priscilla and Aquila helped equip Apollos in a way that led to even more fruitful

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