Lesson Plan for November 12, 2006
Lydia
Demonstrates
Faithfulness
Hospitality: hos·pi·tal·i·ty [noun]
1) Given to generous and cordial
reception of guests 2) promising or
suggesting generous and cordial
welcome 3) offering a pleasant or
sustaining environment
4) readily receptive
Devotional Reading – Acts 16:25-34
Background Scripture – Acts 16
Printed Text Acts 16:6-15, 40
Lesson Aim –
1. Understand Lydia’s Conversion
2. Compare and contrast the
importance of hospitality in the
ancient and modern worlds.
3. Personally plan two hospitality
events: one for the believers and
one for unbelievers.
Key Verse - And when she was
baptized, and her household, she
besought us, saying, If ye have judged
me to be faithful to the Lord, come into
my house, and abide there. And she
constrained us. Acts 16:15
Genuine Christian Hospitality
is the Love of Christ.
1. Guidance from the spirit (Acts 16:6-
10)
A. Spirit’s Prohibition (v. 6,7)
B. Man fro Macedonia (Acts
6:8-10)
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What do you think?
Paul and his companions immediately
followed the leading of the Spirit. But,
like Gideon in Judges 6, we often want
further confirmation before obeying.
Why are we this way? How can we more
readily follow the Spirit’s leading?
2. Conversion of Lydia (Acts 16:11-14)
A. Arrival in Philippi (v. 11,12)
B. Response of Lydia (v.13,14)
What do you think?
Many like Lydia believe that God exists
and so they worship him. How should
the church respond to unchristian “God-
fearers”? Who are the unsaved God-
fearers in our community?
3. Hostility of Lydia (Acts 16:15, 40)
A. Baptism of Lydia’s household
(v.15)
B. Paul’s farewell to Lydia (v.
40)
What do you think?
In this age of easy access to restaurants
and motels, is “in-home hospitality
really all that important? Why or why
not?
Questions:
1. What was Lydia’s source of
livelihood?
2. Who comforted whom when Paul
and Silas were finally released fro
imprisonment?
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3. Where did Jewish believers
assemble in Philippi?
4. Does the Holy Spirit ever say no to
good plans?
5. What did Lydia and others in her
household do when they accepted
Jesus?
6. Did anyone else in Paul’s company
have his same dream of a man in
Macedonia?
7. What kind of sailing weather did
Paul encounter from Troas to
Neapolis?
8. The man of Macedonia called for
Help; what is the best help anyone
can be given?
Acts 16: 6 Now when they had gone
throughout Phrygia and the region of
Galatia, and were forbidden of the
Holy Ghost to preach the word in
Asia,
7 After they were come to Mysia,
they assayed to go into Bithynia: but
the Spirit suffered them not.
8 And they passing by Mysia came
down to Troas.
9 And a vision appeared to Paul in
the night; There stood a man of
Macedonia, and prayed him, saying,
Come over into Macedonia, and help
us.
10 And after he had seen the vision,
immediately we endeavoured to go
into Macedonia, assuredly gathering
that the Lord had called us for to
preach the gospel unto them.
11 Therefore loosing from Troas, we
came with a straight course to
Samothracia, and the next day to
Neapolis;
12 And from thence to Philippi,
which is the chief city of that part of
Macedonia, and a colony: and we
were in that city abiding certain days.
13 And on the sabbath we went out
of the city by a river side, where
prayer was wont to be made; and we
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sat down, and spake unto the
women which resorted thither.
14 And a certain woman named
Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of
Thyatira, which worshipped God,
heard us: whose heart the Lord
opened, that she attended unto the
things which were spoken of Paul.
15 And when she was baptized, and
her household, she besought us,
saying, If ye have judged me to be
faithful to the Lord, come into my
house, and abide there. And she
constrained us.
40 And they went out of the prison,
and entered into the house of Lydia:
and when they had seen the
brethren, they comforted them, and
departed.
Thought to Remember
Sometimes to open a door is the
best way to open a heart.
Daily Bible Reading:
Monday: (November 13) Show
Hospitality to strangers – Hebrews
13:1-6.
Tuesday: (November 14) Mary and
Martha welcome Jesus – Luke
10:38-42.
Wednesday: (November 15) Serve
one another with you gifts – 1 Peter
4:7-11.
Thursday: (November 16) Lydia
becomes a faithful follower – Acts
16:11-15.
Friday: (November 17) Paul & Silas
are imprisoned – Acts 16:16-24.
Saturday: (November 18) The
converted jailer shows Hospitality –
Acts 16:25-34.
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Hebrew 13:2 Be not forgetful to

entertain strangers: for thereby some
have entertained angels unawares.

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