Today we continue to hear about Paul and his travels in bringing the good news of Jesus throughout the world. Today he leaves Athens and ends up in Corinth, where he meets some who reject this Good News and others who welcome Paul with open arms. We hear about a Jew named Aquila and his wife Priscilla who are originally from Italy and who welcome Paul in their humble home, about Crispus, a synagogue official, who comes to believe and who has his whole family baptized. Many of the Jews were still choosing whether they would follow the Way of Jesus in their lives or not, and in many of the towns that Paul visited, he often found a receptive audience in the Gentiles.
I was reading a history of Spain, having just been there on pilgrimage, and it was talking about how in the years right before the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s, the government in Spain had been very much against the Church. Spain now seems to be a country that is once again somewhat challenging the role of the Church and the Catholic faith in its modern reality. We, also, in the US, seem to be struggling with what it means to be a Christian in the modern world, with applying the commandments that God left us to our modern reality. However, we must always remember that the truth that God left us is eternal, that it does not become out of date. We are not to change our minds and embrace what is politically correct at the moment, but are to follow God in the way we see him commanding us. Paul never shied away from what God was asking him to do – may we be the same.
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