ACTS 20
Paul was leaving the next day so he was determined to speak for a long time.
Eutychus was sitting on a window ledge - probably the coolest place to sit as the clammy sweatiness of the upstairs room intensified and the heat of the lights took hold.
Eutychus fell asleep whilst Paul was talking - everyone's a critic.
Eutychus may have heard what he needed to hear - sometimes that 'moment' can happen very early on in a sermon or in a conversation.
The lights in the room are an indication that the christians were becoming more brazen and less secretive - they would have ordinarily met quietly and in the dark.
The lights in the room would have prevented the people in the room from seeing outside - so unless someone directly saw Eutychus's fall then it would have been someone in the street who raised the alarm.
I wonder if there were people in the street who were trying to listen - the lights, the buzz, the people, the rumours.
Once Paul had come downstairs and stunned the crowd by bringing Eutychus back, saying 'his soul is in him', he went back upstairs and finished his sermon - not even a teenager falling out of a window put him off. He also broke bread with the crowd - maybe as a way of getting them to focus once again on Jesus rather than whisper repeatedly about what they had just witnessed.
Eutychus was sitting on a window ledge - probably the coolest place to sit as the clammy sweatiness of the upstairs room intensified and the heat of the lights took hold.
Eutychus fell asleep whilst Paul was talking - everyone's a critic.
Eutychus may have heard what he needed to hear - sometimes that 'moment' can happen very early on in a sermon or in a conversation.
The lights in the room are an indication that the christians were becoming more brazen and less secretive - they would have ordinarily met quietly and in the dark.
The lights in the room would have prevented the people in the room from seeing outside - so unless someone directly saw Eutychus's fall then it would have been someone in the street who raised the alarm.
I wonder if there were people in the street who were trying to listen - the lights, the buzz, the people, the rumours.
Once Paul had come downstairs and stunned the crowd by bringing Eutychus back, saying 'his soul is in him', he went back upstairs and finished his sermon - not even a teenager falling out of a window put him off. He also broke bread with the crowd - maybe as a way of getting them to focus once again on Jesus rather than whisper repeatedly about what they had just witnessed.
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