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Hey, what is up, everybody? Thanks for joining us on the Daily Drive on this Friday. My name is

Bro, and together we've been walking through the book of Acts, and today

we come to chapter six, and we see how the church is crossing more and more cultural lines,

and it complicates things. Again, this thing called the church is a brand new thing, and it is

exploding in growth. And with growth comes new challenges and new strategies, and with growth comes more

and more people with more and more needs. And that's what's happening in chapter 6. Now, most of the

people in the early church were more traditional Jews that spoke Hebrew or Aramaic, but there are also

many of the Greek-speaking Jews known as the Hellenists who are also coming to Christ, and it comes to the

attention of the leaders that a number of those Hellenistic widows weren't receiving adequate care,

and there were rumblings of inequity between the two groups. So the apostles call a meeting and say,

You know what, guys, not that we're too good for this, but we really need to be about prayer, teaching the word, and spreading the good news.

We've got to figure out a better way to do a benevolence ministry than the 12 of us trying to juggle all these things.

So they come up with a plan to delegate.

They let some caring, gifted, full of the spirit guise, run the food pantry so that everybody

would be adequately taken care of. And this move to let go of ministry and to allow other people

in the body of Christ to lead was brilliant. And by the way, it was always God's plan.

I was in my first lead pastor job at a little church in Kentucky, and I really want to do a good job.

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