Conversions in Acts and Epistles

**Conversions in Acts and Epistles**
Instance	Approach, Method	Message	Response
Galatia	- In synagogue - Public place after a healing - Also, Timothy's conversion as a youth	- Not specified (synagogue) - Turn from idolatry to God - God's providential care for the earth and mankind - Preached the gospel, made many disciples - Jesus gave himself for sins to bring salvation according to the will of God	- Believed - Hearing with Faith - Not a matter of following the Law or being circumcised - Sincere faith - "Good confession"
Philippi	- By the riverside "place of prayer" - In jail	- Not specified (Lydia) - Believe in the Lord - Spoke the word of the Lord to them	- The Lord opened the heart - Baptized
Thessalonica	- Reasoned in the synagogue	- Christ has to suffer and rise from the dead - Jesus is the Christ	- Some were persuaded, believed the message as from God - Joined Paul and Silas - Obeyed the gospel
Corinth	- Reasoned in the synagogue	- Trying to persuade Jews and Greeks (that Jesus is the Christ) - Not trying to be "wise", just that Jesus was crucified and raised from the dead - Christ died for sins accoriding to the Scrptures, buried, raised from the dead on the third day according to the Scriptures	- Believed and were baptized - "Washed, sanctified and justified in the name of Christ" - All were baptized
Ephesus	- Reasoned in the synagogue - Private explanation (Apollos) - School of Tyrannus - Publicly, privately	- The way of the Lord - Baptism of Jesus over that of John - Receiving the Holy Spirit - The kingdom of God - Repentance towards God, faith in the Lord Jesus - The gospel of the grace of God	- Baptism into Jesus - Repentance towards God, faith in Jesus - Hearing, believing the message, sealed with the Holy Spirit - Raised up with Christ - Saved by grace through faith
Romans	- Visitors to Pentecost - Paul's presentation to the Jews of Rome	- Believing God raised Jesus from the dead - Evidence for Jesus from the Law and Prophets	- Obedience from faith - Wholehearted obedience to the form of teaching given to them in the gospel - Confessing Jesus as Lord, believing God raised Jesus from the dead - Died to sin, raised to newness of life in baptism which is a participation in the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus