Welcome to Further In, a podcast where Pastor Ben and members of our team take a deeper look at Sunday's message at Passion City Church, D.C., and consider how to apply the truths of God's word to our lives today.

Great. Welcome. John here, Jake here. Lizzie here. Pastor Ben here. Talking about acts

coming out of Anna and Iersh and Safira. We went into the valley. I don't know if you

call this coming back up. It's kind of still dark and sad in some ways, but also inspiring.

Yeah, kind of did the inward focus.

Let's get the church dialed in and make sure we're not kind of run by ponies.

And then it's expansion.

And it's taking the hit.

That's the thing you see all the time to the gospel.

Opposition and expansion go hands in hand, you know.

But it is significant.

We can think of it as normal because for Christians, we talk so much about sharing your faith

and inviting people to know God. It was interesting for me talking with multiple religious leaders

when I was in college ministry. Their conception was, I'm here to care for my

constituent at the school that believes these things. There was no idea of like, I want more

people to believe these ideas, zero, and in multiple different kind of faith circles. And I'm like,

so he asked me, like, so what, you know, I remember talking to one

teacher that was like, so what are you doing to sort of care for your constituents? And I'm like, I mean, I'll tell you what we do, but like a big part of what we do is expansion. Like, we want everyone to put their faith in Jesus. Like, it's interesting that you don't even have that is a category of what you're here to do.

I'm not here to just care for.

He knew down to the... we want everyone to put their faith in Jesus. It's interesting that you don't even have that as a category of what you're here to do.

I'm not here to just care for. He knew down to the exact number. There are this many people who believe this in this campus, and that's my audience and no more. And I'm like, yeah, that's not what we're doing. We want every tribe, tongue, and nation to come to know Jesus. So the fact that in the early church, that was a heartbeat is significant.

We want the world to know.

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