The Word of God & the Scriptures
Page 3: The Word Grows!
What did the apostles' disciples do with the Word of God?
They did what the apostles did. They proclaimed and spoke it, and it got inside of others.
They that were scattered abroad went everywhere preaching the Word. (Acts 8:4)
Those who were scattered went everywhere preaching the Word. Is this because they were trained evangelists? Is this result of a concerted effort to exhort the disciples to witness everywhere they went?
It was not. Search for commands to evangelize in the letters to the churches. You will find none or very close to none.
The apostles' churches did not have to be exhorted to evangelize because God's Word was a part of them.
What do I mean by that?
The Word of God Grows!
I want you to look at three of the strangest verses in all of Scripture:
The Word increased, and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem. (Acts 6:7)
The Word grew and multiplied. (Acts 12:24)
The Word grew by power and prevailed. (Acts 19:20)
God's Word grew? It increased? It multiplied?
What does that mean? Did the Scriptures multiply? Do these verses mean that new books of the Bible were being written?
Did Jesus somehow grow? He's God's Word, according to John 1:1. Did he increase?
No, neither of those things make sense. But something else makes absolute sense. It makes these verses in Acts quite normal statements.
But it involves a shift in the way we think about the Word of God.
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