1) The Gospel Brings Change | Acts 19:24-27
2) The Gospel Brings Truth | Acts 19:28-34, Matthew 10:34, Psalm 56:4
3) The Gospel Brings Faithfulness | Acts 19:35-41, Ephesians 6:12
“Many of us in the West have lived quite comfortably with all these things in separate compartments, and everything clinically wrapped so that nothing can leak from one compartment to another. We are inclined to look at the riot in Ephesus, shudder, and thank God that we don’t do things like that any more. …We should think again about the way in which wickedness gets a grip on a society, somewhere down below its polite exterior, and about the way in which, sooner or later, someone needs to take their courage in one hand and their Bible in the other, throw to the winds any caution about their own prospects, and say what needs to be said. And we shouldn’t miss, either, the way in which, once again, the gospel functions as a critique of all temples, whether the Parthenon in Athens, the temple of Artemis in Ephesus…”
-NT Wright