Confident

This week Chase speaks about Stephens sermon. How Stephen went into the heart of Jerusalem and said "If you are so sure that you Jews are right and us Christians are wrong, then come and prove me wrong."

We learn 3 things:

*The gospel forgives or it condems. There is no middle ground.

*If you stand for Jesus, he will stand for you.

*A single act of boldness can change the world.

Guest Speaker Lemanuel Williams (Founder of Building Shalom) joins us this week in continuing our study through the book of Acts; discussing the growth of the early church, and how Christ is the power AND wisdom of this world.

Guest Speaker Lemanuel Williams (Founder of Building Shalom) joins us this week in continuing our study through the book of Acts and the growth of the early church.

This week Chase discusses the story of Ananias and Sapphira and the dangers to be careful of in the church - How to handle sin and hypocrisy.

How important it was for the early church to start off on a good moral foundation.

"That's the thing about sin inside the church; it has to be rooted out. We have the choice to let God do it by forcibly removing it, or we can do it ourselves through repentance."

"Make it your aim to put prayer into your daily calendar and what you'll find is that as you pray more and more, your God will get bigger and bigger, and your problems will get smaller and smaller, and God will begin to work in you and through you in ways you can't even imagine."

Maybe you think to yourself "It seems like there's bad people and there's good people. How can God say that even those that are good can't get to heaven if they don't believe in Jesus. That seems harsh, unfair."

Aren't christians supposed to be humble and accepting?

How can they say Jesus is the ONLY way? Isn't that prideful? Arrogant?

Today Chase will show you that Christianity isn't any of those things. It's not prideful, it's not arrogant. And even though Christianity is exclusive, like every other religion or philosophy in the world, that's NOT what should shock you about christianity. You shouldn't be shocked about it's exclusivity, but you should be shocked by it's radical INCLUSIVITY!

This week in Acts chapter 3, let's see what happens when you unleash a holy spirit filled, gospel proclaiming, bible applying, fellowshipping, praying people into the community that doesn't know Jesus!

What does Jesus have in mind for the church? If all you know about church is their worship style and a few sermons..if all you've experienced at a church is that 1hr service...you haven't had a REAL church experience.

Evangelism...Remember, that's the mission. Go and make disciples that make disciples.

"One of the best ways that you can take steps in evangelism is to be a public christian."

"Everyone you know is living according to a story, and if it's not the story of the Bible, it's going to fall apart one day. The most loving thing we can do is point them to the truth."

What happens after Jesus was crucified? And why would God give all his power to His son, to Jesus?.... Well, to finish what He started.

Where have you placed your hope?

Where do you draw your power?