HER STORY: Leaders in the Cause of Christ, Lydia

In thinking about Lydia’s story, five divisions seemed to emerge:

1. Lydia’s destiny
2. Lydia’s career as a dye merchant
3. Lydia’s desire to establish her own household
4. The dream God gave Paul to evangelize in Macedonia
5. The dignity God settled on women in first century Palestine and on Lydia, and the dignity the Apostle Paul also conferred on women and on Lydia

I Destiny, Acts 16:14

II Dye Merchant, Acts 16:14

III Desire, Acts 16:14

IV Dream, Acts 16:6-12

V Dignity, Acts 16:13-15

And through Lydia we learn that mature faith accepts God’s crossing up of conventions–I first heard that taught in a BSF class, years ago, and I was struck with the simple wisdom in that statement.

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