Today I want to focus on two problems the faced the early church in Jerusalem. Squabbling widows threatened to rip the church apart from the inside and persecution threatened to do the same thing from the outside.
Today I want to focus on two problems the faced the early church in Jerusalem. Squabbling widows threatened to rip the church apart from the inside and persecution threatened to do the same thing from the outside.
We’ve been looking at the astounding growth of the early Church in Acts. It didn’t take very long before it began to experience trouble from the inside and the outside.
The Book of Acts is, I think, the most exciting book of the Bible. Reading about the miraculous expansion of the Church and of the exploits of Paul is like reading an adventure novel. So let’s begin at the end of Luke’s Gospel, which leads us into Acts.