Boldness and Courage in the Holy Spirit (Acts 5:12 – 35: 38 - 42)
Channel: The Bible In Historical Context
Date: 2023-05-26

Please join me as we see the difference the Holy Spirit made in the Apostle’s lives as they faced change after challenge and threats to life and limb. It is this same transforming power that each of us needs for our lives.

This is the primary problem of American Christianity today. It is all to human-centered, human-created, and human empowered. Whereas the only way the Apostles and the Church through the ages has survived and thrived, is by turning their back to human power, and instead relying upon the Holy Spirit to lead, guide, direct, and empower.

The only reason the “Gates of Hell” cannot overcome Jesus’ Church, is because God is immeasurably more powerful than the forces of evil or anything else that raises itself against Jesus’ Church, or each individual follower of Jesus.  

Frankly, the modern American Church and most of Western Christianity are mere shadows of the early Church, or even the Church in Asia or Africa, because while we rely upon institutions, programs, technology, and our own human strength, the churches in much of Asia and Africa have few human-made resources, as well as facing persecution, which forces them to rely upon God and his power, because it is the only place they often can turn to.

Please join me as we think about how essential and indispensable the Holy Spirit is to each of our everyday lives and the life of Jesus’ Church as a whole.