Scattered for a Purpose // Acts 8:1-3

Live Free with Josh Howerton

Lakepointe Church

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

2.4 • 706 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

What happens when God moves us out of our comfort zones? Today, we see how the early church was propelled from familiar surroundings in Jerusalem into challenging territories due to persecution. Though scattered, believers found new ways to spread the message of Jesus, showing us that God often uses our discomfort for greater purposes. Just as He called them out, He calls us to impact lives around us beyond our safe places. Let’s keep our hearts open to God’s leading today, ready to follow wherever He calls. For more information, visit lakepointe.church/dailydrive

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0:00.0	Thanks for tuning in to today's Daily Drive with Lake Point Church, a daily dose of God's word for your morning drive.
0:08.6	When the word, not the world, becomes the majority of your week, your life will start to change.
0:15.2	For that reason, our prayer is that God will speak to you through today's devotional.
0:20.6	For more digital content to
0:22.6	feed your faith, visit lakepoint.combe. Church slash Daily Drive. And now let's dive in to
0:28.5	today's devotional. Hey, what is up? Welcome to the Daily Drive where we download a little of God's
0:33.8	Word into our hearts every day. My name is Bro, and thanks for hanging with us today. We're walking through a book called The Book of Acts, and it's the history of God's Word and to our hearts every day. My name is Bro, and thanks for hanging with us today.
0:38.3	We're walking through a book called The Book of Acts, and it's the history of how the Church
0:42.2	of Jesus got started, and it is such an inspiring read. It's full of drama, an adventure,
0:47.9	and characters, and unexpected twist and turns. It just makes me grateful that you and I get to be
0:53.1	on the same ride of faith in 2024.
0:56.8	Yesterday, we met the first Christian martyr, a good man named Stephen, a guy that was
1:02.0	chosen to take care of widows and manage the benevolent ministry of the church, and it describes
1:06.5	him as full of grace and power. And as he boldly talks about Jesus, man, it gets him in trouble
1:12.8	with the religious leaders who hated Jesus. And they do the same thing they did to Jesus.
1:18.4	They arrest him, get some folks to lie about him, they have a quick, phony trial, they charge him
1:22.7	with blasphemy, they stir up a mob, and they execute him. Stephen dies with peace, and they continue to live
1:29.6	with fury. So at the end of the story yesterday, we meet a young guy named Saul. He's working like
1:35.1	the coat check of the execution and applauding what's going on. And Saul would really seize this moment
1:40.5	to crank up the persecution of the followers of Jesus. It says this in the beginning of
1:46.1	Chapter 8. Saul was one of the witnesses, and he agreed completely with the killing of Stephen.
1:52.9	A great wave of persecution began that day, sweeping over the church in Jerusalem,
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