S5:021 – The early church's evidence for the gospel (Acts 9:32-43, Part 1)
Join The Journey
Watermark Community Church, Dallas, TX
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🗓️ 19 May 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
How did people know the early church’s message was true? Why did miracles matter? In this episode, Bruno Ysla, Watermark member and PhD student at Dallas Theological Seminary, joins Emma Dotter to discuss Acts 9:32-43 and the role signs and wonders played in the expansion of the early church. Then, they talk about other ways followers of Jesus today can give evidence to support the truth of the gospel.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | All right, all right. Join the Journey family, friends, and guests. You're listening to |
| 0:04.8 | join the Journey podcast with your host, Emma, daughter. Thanks for joining. This week, we are back |
| 0:12.2 | with two part episodes. So today you'll get the first part. Tomorrow you'll get the second. |
| 0:17.0 | And we are reading Acts 9, 31 through 43. And with me today, our friend Bruno, he is back. |
| 0:27.7 | I'm back. Thank you for inviting me. You're welcome. Thank you for being here. Bruno, last time you |
| 0:31.7 | shared a little bit about your YouTube channel. This time, would you share a little bit about |
| 0:36.1 | what God's done in your life and how you ended up at Watermark? |
| 0:39.0 | Yeah, it was, it was T.A.'s fault, actually. |
| 0:43.3 | T.A.'s fault. Yeah, it was T.A.'s fault. He's an alumni at DTS. |
| 0:47.7 | Yes. So he was invited to chapel at DTS. It's, yeah, we have weekly chapel. |
| 0:53.4 | Yeah. And they invite alumni, |
| 0:56.0 | professors, preachers, pastors. And he was, and I was visiting here in May because I knew I was |
| 1:02.2 | moving in August. So I wanted to, to school for, yeah, for the masters. And I knew I had to find |
| 1:08.0 | a church. Of course. So I, okay, let's go to chapel, see who goes. |
| 1:12.7 | Maybe God will do something. |
| 1:14.7 | And TA was one of the, was the invite that week. |
| 1:18.9 | Really? |
| 1:19.4 | So I had no idea what Watermark was. |
| 1:22.2 | The only, my only guide was that TA preached and I thought he was very good. |
| 1:28.0 | And he had. Because he is. I would say so. Yeah, he's very good. And he had this like PowerPoint presentation. |
| 1:34.4 | Yeah. And at the bottom it said, Watermark Community Church. I just took a picture. I was like, |
| 1:40.2 | okay, let me look it up. And when I moved here, I had Googled it. |
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