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LIVING IN AUTHENTICITY
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PHILIPPIANS
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When I hear the word saint, I’m reminded of my Catholic friends
talking about patron saints of things like illnesses, places, or occupations. In fact, Lydia is the patron saint of dyeing because of her
purple-dye business mentioned in Acts 16. There’s a lot that goes
into receiving the title of Saint, not the least of which is that the
person needs to be deceased. So Paul is obviously using the word in
a different way here. Let’s head again to the BLB and find out what
he means.
3. Open up the Interlinear section of Philippians 1:1. What does
this word saints (hagios; γιος, pronounced ha-gee-os) mean?
4. Using what we’ve learned from the expanded definition of
saints (hagios; γιος), how would you describe them (us)?
History Lesson
In the early church, the title of saint (hagios; γιος) was essentially used in the same way the term Christian is today. But did
you know Christian was initially a mocking term?
Barnabas went to Tarsus to look for Saul, 26 and when he had found
him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they met with the
church and taught a great many people. And in Antioch the disciples
were first called Christians.
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ACTS 11:25-26
Antioch was a melting pot, referred to as “all the world in one
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