Resisting and Scattering

Our Response to Salvation

God’s initiation of our salvation calls us to respond with strong identities. God uses these identities to sustain us in times of trial. We are hopeful in Jesus, called to holiness, and to conduct ourselves accordingly.

Twelve Bedrock Truths of a True Gospel Salvation

Your union with Christ will provide all that you need for both life and death, and your identity in Christ is formed through holiness. When you put your faith in Christ alone, you are assured of your salvation into an eternal kingdom!

Scattered on Mission

The early church didn't go on mission because things were going well — they went because they got scattered. Persecuted, uprooted, and displaced, ordinary Spirit-filled believers went about preaching the word anyway. The result? Much joy in that city. Mission isn't a program or a special calling. If Christ is in you, going is just who you are. So what's stopping us — and what could our city look like if we actually showed up?

Resisting and Scattering

Stephen reminds us that accountability is formed in community, and our response to it is telling. Rejecting God makes us less human, but when our eyes are fixed on Christ, we can receive correction that leads to repentance. Dying like Christ, suffering like Christ, is a means to spreading the Good News.

A Faithful Death

In Acts 7, Stephen reminds the leaders that Jesus was a greater prophet and deliverer than the fathers of our faith. But in the same way that many in the Old Testament couldn’t see past what was in front of them, Stephen addresses the Jewish audience with reproof. In what ways might we reject the Jesus who came to save, the way the leaders of Stephen’s day did?