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View all sermons by Andrew Baker
Acts 6:8-15; 7:1-60 — As we look at the account of Stephen’s death and the subsequent spread of the Gospel, we see God not only permits suffering and persecution but also uses that suffering to victoriously achieve His plans and purposes. We see this principle at work here in the life and death of Stephen and most clearly of all in the life, death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus.
WATCH: Sermon begins at 54:29
View all sermons by Kathryn Hartley
Acts 6:1-7 — When you sit down at the table with people who don’t think like you, act like you and look like you, except that you all follow Jesus, that is an act of holy resistance (philoxenos). In the early church, hospitality - the love of the stranger, or the one who is not like you - was taught as an important way of protecting the bond of peace in the body of Christ. How much more important is it in our modern hyper-individualistic society today!? What if our radical hospitality towards one another, even in our differences, was sufficiently counter-cultural that we shone like lights for Jesus and grew healthy, life-filled communities of disciples?
WATCH: Sermon begins at 54:23
