The picture is of our pastor standing next to figures of Abraham Lincoln and his wife and son. Our pastor is distantly kin to Mary Todd Lincoln. This picture was taken while he attended the Amercian Baptist Association a few years ago.“A Ladies Meeting” (Acts 16:13) And on the sabbath we went out of the city by a river side, where prayer was wont to be made; and we sat down, and spake unto the women which resorted [thither].
In this text Luke tells of an occasion when he and the Apostle Paul were in the city of Philippi and went out to the river side where they met a congregation of women. These women had met together each Sabbath day not to gossip but to pray and worship God together. Paul sat down and spoke with these women. One of them was a woman named Lydia. She heard Paul speak and accepted Jesus Christ as her savior. She was baptized along with her whole household. The saving of this family began with a lost woman attending a Ladies meeting. She had been worshiping the true God with the other ladies at this regular meeting but she did not know about Jesus Christ. Men are suppose to be the spiritual leaders of their household. The Philippian jailor of this same city would come to know Jesus as his savior and would lead his household to the Lord. But here Lydia takes the lead and her household was saved. When a group of people meet for such a Godly purpose, as was the case with this ladies meeting, then good things happen which bring lost souls to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.
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