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Episode 196: Acts 7

Join The Journey

Watermark Community Church, Dallas, TX

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Christian, Bible, Devotional

5827 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

"What does the gospel cost you?" Emma Dotter talks through some of Acts 7, where we see people suffering for the sake of the gospel. Sometimes living for Jesus is costly but it's always worth it. Lean in today while we learn how to let our lives reflect him. 

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Everybody, what is going on? You know what time it is. You're listening to join the Journey podcast with your host, Emma, daughter.

0:08.8

Thanks for joining. If you're anything like me, I bet you turn to today's chapter, Act 7. And if you didn't give yourself an adequate amount of time to spend in God's word, you may have been shocked by how much

0:21.4

longer it is than Friday's chapter. So if you haven't read today's chapter in full,

0:26.3

Act 7, pause the episode, and read it. If you're on the go, pull over or quit running for just

0:31.5

a second and go to join the journey.com and click listen right beneath the scripture heading.

0:36.8

It will read it to you. Now, back in

0:38.9

Act 6, we saw the neglect of the widows, and Stephen was seized after the false witnesses

0:45.2

spoke against him. They saw the way he was living, the way he was operating, empowered by the

0:50.6

Holy Spirit, and they didn't like it. He didn't fit in. And today's chapter

0:55.6

concludes with him, ultimately, being stoned. Ever been there? I mean, you probably haven't been

1:01.7

stoned, but ever felt like you weren't part of the in-crow or that your faith was causing you

1:07.1

to be ostracized? Those times can be really difficult, socially, emotionally,

1:12.8

and for some, maybe physically. But those moments when we feel like our faith causes us to

1:19.7

have to swim upstream, they can actually be our biggest opportunities to witness.

1:26.2

And today's Devo, Watermark member and student,

1:29.8

Ruthie Grant, talks about the suffering our faith might bring about. She writes,

1:34.5

Let's start this morning or evening. I see you, night owls. And honestly, hey, shout out to the

1:38.9

podcast people who listen to this at night. I want to actually know you. I feel like there's this

1:44.0

small population group

1:45.8

forming of night podcast listeners, and I'm glad you're getting it in. But Ruthie says,

1:52.2

hey, whether you're reading this in the morning or the night, let's start by defining suffering.

1:58.4

According to Dictionary.com, to suffer is to undergo or feel pain or distress,

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