Our current culture rewards and takes pride in speaking our opinions.  Leaders of the early church were challenged for what they were speaking, yet this was not about their opinions, rather what they had seen and heard about Jesus.  Peter and John, who were leaders of the early church, were threatened for speaking boldly about Jesus.  They responded that “we cannot keep from speaking about what we have seen and heard” about Jesus, (Acts 4:20).  Our words today, as the early church, need to be rooted in the truth of Jesus (grace, love), bathed in prayer, and spoken with a boldness that comes through the Holy Spirit.  Turning the world upside down includes speaking boldly.

Scripture - Acts 4:5-31