In Acts 8:25-40 we are presented with the story of Philip and the Ethiopian eunuch. As a boy in Southern Baptist Sunday School, I was taught that this particular story was of great significance because it illustrated the first black man saved and the spread of the gospel to the African Continent. Church tradition (which is usually ignored by Southern Baptists) states that this Ethiopian was the bearer of the Gospel of Christ to the North of Africa. Even if tradition is accurate, and it may well be, it seems that too much attention to it confuses and obfuscates the particular meaning that the conversion of the eunuch bears in the tale of the Gospel’s spread in Acts.
Posted on 01/18/2006 |
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