“So that all the Jews and the Greeks who lived in the province of Asia heard the word of the Lord.” (Acts 19:10b)
SUMMARY:
Rev. Joy Matos utilizes Jesus’s Parable of the Soils to evaluate how citizens in Athens, Corinth, and Ephesus responded to the Apostle Paul’s missionary proclamations. She explained that only Ephesus proved to be “good soil,” where God’s word yielded spiritual conviction, miraculous healing, economic disruption of pagan worship, and an enduring regional impact.