FROM TODAY’S READING (1/12/2021)...
“For us, a two-week trip to the third-world to share the gospel is generally a culturally accepted thing—it’ll get you applause and maybe even a newspaper article if your town is small enough.
Yet for the early church, they had no choice but to become missionaries; right after Stephen’s death, such a great wave of persecution arose because of their “Radical Christianity” that the believers fled for their lives to other nations, carrying the Gospel with them. They didn’t plan their trip, make a budget or take little bottles of hand sanitizer with them…they only took the Gospel…and they took it into every place they went—even as they were running for their lives.”
Kyle Donn (The Dangerous Allure of “Sexy Christianity”)
Acts 11:19-21 (NLT) Meanwhile, the believers who had been scattered during the persecution after Stephen’s death traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch of Syria. They preached the word of God, but only to Jews. However, some of the believers who went to Antioch from Cyprus and Cyrene began preaching to the Gentiles about the Lord Jesus. The power of the Lord was with them, and a large number of these Gentiles believed and turned to the Lord.
Acts 20:24 (NLT) But my life is worth nothing to me unless I use it for finishing the work assigned me by the Lord Jesus—the work of telling others the Good News about the wonderful grace of God.
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