Act 8 Called To Be Church
In reading, Acts 8 and Called to be Church. There are so many patterns of conversion that can be
gleaned in the understanding of being saved. As we compare the conversion with Simon of Samaria
and the anonymous eunuch from Ethiopia, in learning how God requires us to become Christians. This
is their story of conversions.
When Philip arrived in Samaria, Simon was amazed by the power of God working in Philip s life, that
Simon repented and became a believer, baptized and saved (Act 8:22). However, Simon being a
magician by heart, when his conversion happened, Simon s magic practice came to a screeching halt.
As if it was something evil or anti Christian. This was considered the outward sign of his conversion,
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Acts 8 tells us, this man was in Jerusalem to worship the God of Israel, but was not saved. However,
he gains religion from hearing the preaching, in a revival under the leading of Peter and John in
Samaritan City. The story goes, that God sought after this man, after he left Samaritan City and
divinely leading Philip to him, in a desert place. As if, it was a divine election of God s sovereign will.
Acts 8:26 40 tells us, an angel appeared to Philip and told him to go join this man in the chariot. Later
riding down the road, Philip baptized the man in the water that they come upon and the Spirit of the
Lord took Philip away. As this man witnessed what just happened, he left the scene rejoicing. This
opened the door for all Gentiles to be saved by God. Later, the story goes on to say, some ancients
viewed this man to be the father of evangelism in Ethiopia (Carter and Earle, p. 122).
For me, I had a different, but the similar pattern as the eunuch s conversion. In 1994, responding to a
different concept and experience of conversion. Bringing me later to find God in a new revelation, that
changed me to truly repented, baptized, and saved, in 2013. As Fernando states, Conversion, not
conceived in narrowly moral terms, rather seen as coming to a new understanding: it is having one s
ignorance alleviated changing one s mind as well as one s heart (Fernando, p.
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