Accelerating the Kingdom (Acts 5:42-6:7)
Malcolm Cunningham, May 1, 2016Part of the Elders, Deacons and More series, preached at a Sunday Morning service
The rapid spread of the Kingdom of Christ in the early church wasn't a bed of roses. But those problems were turned into victories through the right people in the right positions with the right preoccuptations.
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Acts 5:42–6:7 (Listen)
42 And every day, in the temple and from house to house, they did not cease teaching and preaching that the Christ is Jesus.
6:1 Now in these days when the disciples were increasing in number, a complaint by the Hellenists arose against the Hebrews because their widows were being neglected in the daily distribution. 2 And the twelve summoned the full number of the disciples and said, “It is not right that we should give up preaching the word of God to serve tables. 3 Therefore, brothers, pick out from among you seven men of good repute, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we will appoint to this duty. 4 But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word.” 5 And what they said pleased the whole gathering, and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch. 6 These they set before the apostles, and they prayed and laid their hands on them.
7 And the word of God continued to increase, and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests became obedient to the faith.
(ESV)