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BIBL 104 Name: Jacquelyn Fazzolari B IBLE S TUDY P ROJECT : A PPLICATION T EMPLATE Passage: Acts 19:11-22 What points of application can be made using the “Four Questions for Application?” State and explain 1 point of application for each of these four questions. Your explanation for each of these points should be 1 paragraph (200-300 words) in length, clearly connected to a part of this passage (by way of a verse quotation and/or citation), specific to this passage, and relevant. 1. The Question of Duty In our textbook, the explanation of the question of duty is what God wants us to do and not to do. It is about action and obedience (Cartwright, pp. 177). In Acts 19:11-22, there is a clear message on what God was asking. He wanted the people of Ephesus to renounce their magic practicing and sorcerous habits and walk in His light. From the story of the attack on the Sons of Sceva, the people flocked to burn their books and follow Christ. The question of duty is what God wants us to avoid, which is sorcery and straying away from Him. What he wants us to do, shown in this passage, is to have a deep, meaningful, and genuine relationship with Him. I do not think the story of the attack was meant to scare the people of Ephesus into subordination either. I think that God used it to make the people realize that they were not walking in his path and used it to lead them back to Him. God always had the intention of being involved in his creation (humanity). When the people of Ephesus were straying away, practicing magic, and even using Jesus and Paul’s names to make a fraudulent attempt to imitate miracles, he had to lead them back to the path with Him. 2. The Question of Character In our textbook, the question of character is also the question of what kind of people we should become (Cartwright, pp.177). In Acts 19:11-22, we hear of the miraculous and unusual ways Paul was able to heal people. We see that Paul was a person who God commanded power through because of the unusual ways he was able to heal and the Jewish exorcists trying to copy him. It must have been evident Paul was someone to model after, even if it was only about his successes at first, if Jewish exorcists were trying to copy his techniques. After the attack, it became more about the people becoming believers and more Christlike. We saw many of them burn their expensive books and convert to Christianity, showing how the question of character aspect of the story is an important point. In Acts 19:20, it reads “In this way the word of the Lord spread widely and grew in power.” The power of God made the people realize they were not acting as they should be and they are not who they should be. The story pushed the people to reflect on their relationship with God and recant their sorcery to become better people who walk with Christ. 3. The Question of Goals The question of goals and individual purpose is addressed in Acts 19:11-22. Our textbook puts it nicely: “To ambitiously pursue a cause or goal that runs counter to Scripture ought to be immediately rejected. Therefore, as we move from meaning to application, from thinking through the Scripture to living out the Scripture, we ought to examine the things that drive us” (Cartwright pp. 178). The people of Ephesus were not living with goals in mind of what they

BIBL 104 should pursue as a Christians. They were believing in sorcery, not following God, and definitely not creating their goals with being a Christian in mind. When the story spread of the attack, that all changed. I think God struck a little fear in their hearts to lead them back to faith, but he did this because he loves each one of his children and wanted them to be living Christian lives with goals to ultimately serve God. When they burned their books publicly, they confirmed that they had goals of walking in God’s light from then on. 4. The Question of Discernment I believe Paul emulated what it means to live as a discerning Christian. He was on a missionary journey during his time in Ephesus and there were amazing miracles happening through him. The Bible says that “God did extraordinary miracles through Paul, 12 so that even handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched him were taken to the sick, and their illnesses were cured and the evil spirits left them.” (Acts 19:11) Paul was able to heal without even physically being near the sick, a unusual way for God to heal through one of his people. Paul was seeing Ephesus as God was sewing it, a plagued area that really needed help. I think the amount of need in the area was a reason God made Paul’s miracles extraordinary, because it may have been impossible for Paul to have reached the amount of people who needed help being one person alone. But he was not alone, he was a tool for God and God allowed his handkerchiefs to make a difference too. I think the people of Ephesus would have started living as discerning Christians after they were converted because of the powerful story that made them convert in the first place. John Cartwright and Chris Hulshof, Everyday Bible Study: Growing in the Christian Faith, ed. Gabriel Etzel and Ben Gutierrez, 2nd edition., Everyday Bible Series (Nashville, TN: B&H Academic, 2019).

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