Today’s scripture: Philippians 4:2-3
We sometimes forget how women were involved in the start of the early church.
In Luke’s account of the early church, he wrote specifically that women were
praying alongside the men (Acts 1:14) and believing women “were added to their
number” (5:14). Later in his book, Luke wrote of a time when spoke to a “place
of prayer” and spoke to the “women assemble there” (16:13). And there were
women of prominence involved in the early church (17:4, 12).
There’s a wonderful story of a godly couple who intervened when Apollos was
preaching a partial gospel: "When Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him
aside and explained to him the way of God more accurately” (Acts 18:26).
And I love Paul’s introduction in his second letter to Timothy. He wrote in
glowing terms of his protégé’s faith, one that the younger man witnessed in his
grandmother, Lois, and mother, Eunice (1:5).
Women were and are crucial to the faith. We too must “labor in the gospel” and
be “fellow workers” in support of the body of Christ.
For we too have our “names in the Book of Life.”
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