4 Vision-Shaping Values That Define Our Church
An officer of the Roman army converts to Christianity, signalling a paradigm shift in the advance of the gospel.
Why is it so significant? He and his family are the first Gentiles to be enveloped into the people of God called the church. The doors of…
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Two Ways Jesus Advances the Church
How is it that someone so devoted to the destruction of Christianity can become one of it’s greatest heroes?
In the account of the conversion of the Apostle Paul (aka Saul) we see how such radical transformation is possible.
But beyond Paul’s ama…
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Two Ways Jesus Advances the Church
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Kingdom Advance: Outsiders In & Insiders Out
The Kingdom of God advances by
Outsiders Coming In
Insiders Going Out
Both are powerfully depicted by Philip’s interaction with the Ethiopian Eunuch in Acts 8.
MAIN TEXT
Acts 8:26-40
SPEAKER
David Varney, Pastor Foundation Church Belfast
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Kingdom Advance: Outsiders In & Insiders Out
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Community on Mission: Radically Inclusive & Necessarily Exclusive
The gospel advances to all the ‘wrong’ places. Here we see the hated neighbours – the Samaritans – believing the message about Jesus in their hundreds.
Curiously, the Holy Spirit appears to be withheld from these new believers until the Apostles fr…
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Spirit-Empowered People
One of the most gifted leaders of the early church was cut off in his prime. Stephen was a man full of the Holy Spirit and was highly effective in the church.
But he was the object of sustained opposition from people who hated the message of Jesus….
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