Lydia Hearing and Welcome Record

Keep the Lord’s work before the hosting activity.

Fifteen minutes for one reading or family decisionFree · Two-page fillable PDF

Companion to Read Lydia’s Welcome With the Lord’s Work and Paul’s Message in View.

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Hypothetical example: A family records Lydia’s hearing and invitation, then leaves the ages of household members as an unanswered detail.

01Keep the place and the gathering in the account

Trace the journey and riverside gathering in the selected verses.

Place named in the reading

Gathered people Luke describes

Action before Lydia’s invitation

02Notice the Lord’s work beside Lydia’s hearing

Record what Luke says about Lydia, her hearing and the Lord’s action.

Lydia details explicitly reported

Lord’s action in the account

Response to Paul’s words

03Read the household and invitation without inventing members

Read the baptism and invitation without filling in unreported household members.

Household statement in the text

Invitation Lydia gives

Detail the passage does not identify

04Let attention come before a household activity

Choose a modest reading response and label any later hosting plan as an application.

Question our family actually has

Verse to reread for that question

Application requiring separate adult planning