Today: [Acts 8:] Philip Does a Disappearing Act! In Acts 8 we find Saul of Tarsus committing himself to breathing out slaughter against the church and Philip, a lowly deacon being used to bring the gospel to an entire city. Philip is not an apostle. He is a member of the rank and file among the church, and yet he is used to do mighty things just as you indeed will be used as you yield to the Spirit of God as Philip did.