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Acts 6:2 · BSB
6:2 So the Twelve summoned all the disciples and said, “It is unacceptable for us to neglect the word of God in order to wait on tables.
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…in the church of Jesus Christ, and Apostle Peter put his hands on Stephen and said, Lord, be with this man to serve in the church. He did that inActs chapter 6. Then in Acts chapter 8 or Acts chapter 7, at the end thereof, Paul said, Kill Stephen! And they killed him. And then years later, whenever Peter…
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…And yet, even before the struggles hit, even before Stephen was stoned by the Jews, they were dedicating themselves to prayer. And in fact, inActs chapter 6, you go a few chapters later, they have this complaint against them that some of the widows were being neglected when they were given food. And the…
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…on. He prays for it, connecting his communion with the Lord with what God's word has already revealed. And this is not a pattern unique to Paul. InActs chapter 6, when the apostles needed to hand off the practical responsibilities of ministry so they can focus on what matters most, this is what they said in…
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…something that they desire to do. A leadership position that they want to bless the church with by their service to the Lord. The second is fromActs chapter 6. Speaking about deacons in particular. And Peter says, Men who have integrity. Men who demonstrate a commitment to loving and serving and trusting…
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…down. But now he's standing. Why is he standing? For two reasons. Number one, he is standing, if he is believed on, because it was alluded to inActs chapter 6, that if we believed, God would send his son from heaven and he would establish his kingdom. But he was standing as a witness against them that…
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…So you keep reading later on in Acts 8, and we'll get there in just a moment. There's a guy named Philip. Philip, first time we see him is inActs chapter 6. In the Jerusalem church, he's an ordinary believer, and his role was simply to pass out bread. Him and five other guys are commissioned to pass…
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…go to a lot of places in Scripture to point out examples of this gift being acted out in a practical way. But I think the best place we can go isActs, chapter 6. So go with me from Romans 12:8, where it says for us to rule with diligence, and go with me to Acts chapter six, verses one through seven. We're…
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…different directions. And I don't know we see it any more clearly than we see it when we get to Acts 8 and 9. Now the challenge that had begun inActs chapter 6, the struggle with the needs being met, and then immediately one of the servants who looks a lot like a deacon goes out and he begins to share the…
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…into Jerusalem and they start the church and they stay in Jerusalem for years. Until Acts chapter 10, and actually a little bit in Acts chapter 8,Acts chapter 6, there's a little bit where it goes into Samaria, and there's a little, then there's a persecution, a guy named Stephen is killed, and then people…
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…in the New Testament, the giving of spiritual gifts, the passing on of that miraculous power was done by the laying on of the apostles' hands.Acts chapter 6, Neal talked about it this morning, the apostles laid hands on those seven men. And in Acts chapter 8, verses 18 through 24, when the Samaritans…
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Good morning. If you turn in your Bibles toActs chapter 6, we have a lot of ground to cover today. We're looking at the challenges that the church faced in the book of Acts and how they overcame them. The…
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…through whatever sufferings they might face. And so they're glad to be named with him because suffering is not the end of the story. And then inActs chapter 6, we're introduced to one solitary figure. His name is Stephen. Stephen is a man full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom. He's a deacon, he's not an…
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…on Sunday mornings, just very, very soon. But I want to take you to one place where the church had to wrestle with this a bit. And so let's go toActs chapter 6. Acts chapter 6. We're soon to close here, but I want to give a couple, just a couple examples. Here in Acts chapter 6, in Jerusalem, the first…
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…him away to continue his ministry going up the Mediterranean Sea coast. And then, of course, there's Philip himself, who's one of the deacons fromActs chapter 6, who's involved in preaching and evangelizing. And then lastly, there's Fred. Now, here's Fred. You know, if you remember from the sermon series in…
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…God builds it. Is that right? If you would, he said the door was open and he said to come over to Macedonia and help us. Look if you would atActs chapter 6. Acts chapter 6. I want God to do something in my lifetime, don't you? And I'm not saying mine, don't you want God to do something with your life…
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…English word we get from diakonos. Deacon. It's God's sovereign design that we were ordaining Stephen today as a deacon, a servant in the church.Acts chapter 6describes them as table servants. They come along and they serve others. He says, if you want to be great in my kingdom, then don't try to be…
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…in the church and the dispute over the neglect of the widows, What was their answer? They appointed 7 good deacons. But here's what it says inActs chapter 6and in the verse 4. But we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the Word, the Word. These men were not being sidelined…
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…go and set the elders in place at the Isle of Crete to make sure that churches were set in order and that there was leadership? Yes. Do we find inActs chapter 6that there were deacons, table servers if you will, that assisted with the apostles in the leadership because there was more work to be done than…
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…But God has also called me to do another thing. And so, how does it, how does it, how does it balance with that? One example, in, I think it's inActs chapter 6, when there was a quarrel about the distribution of food. The apostles were like, we cannot leave preaching to serve tables. Not like it was bad,…
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…important to have a good reputation and esteem among men. This is a good step of usefulness in the ministry. For example, the deacons ordained inActs chapter 6were to be men of good reputation, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom. But Paul cannot make it his chief endeavor and goal to please men. For this…
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