Apollos in Ephesus and Corinth

Apollos in Ephesus and Corinth
Acts 18.18-28

These days people will do anything for sponsorship. Recently a Christian leader made well over a million pounds (roughly US$2 million) by running in the London Marathon. I once had a colleague who made a lot of money for his church by losing weight during Lent (he put most of it back on quite quickly afterwards, with Easter eggs and so on). Another colleague ran across burning coals in his bare feet; it’s one thing to roll your sleeves up and get your hands dirty, but quite another to roll your socks down and get your feet scorched. And, coming closer to this passage, I have witnessed people having their hair cut off, or indeed their beard and moustache cut off, all for the sake of charity...

Taken from Acts for Everyone Part 2 by Tom Wright