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Our Values: The Great Commission (Acts 17:1-9)
Andy King, 22 March 2015
Part of the Our Core Purpose, Vision and Values series, Sunday Morning service
It’s a clear message throughout the gospels that God calls us to spread the good news and share with others the hope we have in Christ Jesus. Yet so often we struggle to do this. Why is that? What is it that holds us back? There comes a crucial moment in our conversations that cause us to either take the risk and go for it or hold back and do nothing. Our default option is to hold back. Paul’s ‘custom’ was to go to the places where people were and convince them of the resurrection. This is what God calls us to do and changing our mind-set in order to live this way is possibly the greatest challenge of all.
(Acts 17:1-9)
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Acts 17:1–9 (Listen)
17:1 Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews. 2 And Paul went in, as was his custom, and on three Sabbath days he reasoned with them from the Scriptures, 3 explaining and proving that it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead, and saying, “This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ.” 4 And some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, as did a great many of the devout Greeks and not a few of the leading women. 5 But the Jews were jealous, and taking some wicked men of the rabble, they formed a mob, set the city in an uproar, and attacked the house of Jason, seeking to bring them out to the crowd. 6 And when they could not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the city authorities, shouting, “These men who have turned the world upside down have come here also, 7 and Jason has received them, and they are all acting against the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus.” 8 And the people and the city authorities were disturbed when they heard these things. 9 And when they had taken money as security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.
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