Hello my friends, welcome to Follow Him. My name is Hank Smith. I'm here with the incredible

John by the way. Hello John. Hi Hank, good to be here again.

John we just reviewed Acts 1 through 5. Our little church is now being directed by the

Savior although he is in a different location. The apostles have gained power and strength.

Peter is performing miracles. He's giving these fantastic speeches. He is bold. What do

you think this little church is going to do now? Yeah, this has been really fun because

we got done with the gospels which felt like the get ready, get set and now the book of

Acts is go. And the first Peter just went fishing and Jesus came and said, what are we

doing here? We're reading this going, wow, what happened? These guys are on fire. They're

going out. They're doing things and they are gaining converts by the thousands. So how

do we manage all of this? They're doing that great commission, go you into all the world.

They're doing that. There's got to be challenges that go along with that, right? Yeah, absolutely.

I think the Lord and I've read ahead a little bit but I think the Lord is preparing a new

generation of converts to really fuel this fire. John in order to help us understand this

next section of Acts, Acts 6, 7, 8, 9, we have an incredible scholar and friend, Joinius,

Casey Griffiths. Casey, what do you think is going to happen in this next section? This

little section tells us how that little church of Jerusalem expanded through the whole world

with some help from some very unexpected people. In fact, maybe the last person you would

think that would help him with. Awesome. John, why don't you introduce Casey to our audience?

Yeah, we're so delighted to have Casey back. Again, we've seen his happy countenance on

here before. We've had Casey before. He was born and raised in Delta, Utah. Everyone

there has a happy countenance. He served his mission in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, came

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