Saint Athanasius Lutheran Church

The Ethiopian man was lost. He didn't know how to read the map. He didn't know how to get home. He wasn't dumb. He was anything but. So being an educated man, an official of some calibre, why not read this scroll on the journey home? And so it was that Isaiah confused him. And then he heard a voice... someone to lead him home. Philip began with what Isaiah said here, but said so much more. And like Peter and the other Apostles, Philip must have also told this man than in baptism, by water and the Word, a person receives this new life and new home. That day was Easter Day for this Ethiopian man. That was the day he was raised from being dead in sin to a new life in Christ.