Word for the Week

In chains, but in progress

Week beginning: 31st October, 2021 | By Felipe Carvalho | Director of Student & Young Lawyer Ministries, LCF

Now I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that what has happened to me has actually served to advance the gospel. As a result, it has become clear throughout the whole palace guard and to everyone else that I am in chains for Christ. And because of my chains, most of the brothers and sisters have become confident in the Lord and dare all the more to proclaim the gospel without fear.

Philippians 1:12-14 (NIV)

The Apostle Paul had a strong desire to preach in Rome, as a strategic city to spread the gospel. He went there eventually, not as a free man able to go to the streets and synagogues, but as a prisoner, precisely for preaching the message of salvatio