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Your terrified jailer wants saving… how would you help him?

Issues around the meaning, message and method of salvation – and especially the direct questions of how one can be saved – is a major theme of the book of Acts. This question shapes much of Luke’s narrative, so how we understand and apply the teaching from Acts today will govern much of our mission and ministry.

The direct question in Acts 16:30, comes from the Philippian jailer and is addressed to Paul and Silas. However, the context of this question belongs to the wider setting of the ministry in, and around, the Roman colony of Philippi, beginning at Acts 16:12. Before we look specifically at the question of verse 30, let’s look at the wider context.