For any master, having spent significant time with

his apprentice, there must be a moment of release. The whole point

of a master-apprentice relationship is that the apprentice would

eventually become a master to someone else. This moment of release

is essential. In Acts 20 Paul, the master, gives his final release

to his apprentices — the elders at Ephesus. Before he leaves, he

entrusts the full responsibility of the church to them. On Sunday,

we are going see how this same responsibility has traversed 2,000

years of godly men and women and now it has been entrusted to

us.