The ACTS 17 Collective is introducing tech leaders to Jesus
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🗓️ 14 February 2025
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San Francisco’s tech world has long resisted faith, but a shift is underway. Trae and Michelle Stephens launched the ACTS 17 Collective to engage the industry’s elite, believing the powerful need Jesus too. Through networking events featuring Christian speakers, they offer value to those shaping culture while planting seeds of the gospel. The group’s success across Silicon Valley and beyond raises a question for all believers: When you think about Christ’s call for your life, is knowing him as your savior and Lord at the top of your list?
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| 0:51.1 | Good day to you and welcome to the Daily Article Podcast for Friday, February the 14th, 2025. |
| 0:58.5 | I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum, narrating today's daily article, |
| 1:02.6 | authored by our senior editor for Theology, Dr. Ryan Dennison. |
| 1:08.6 | San Francisco has long been one of America's most irreligious cities with Silicon Valley |
| 1:14.1 | at the center of that resistance to faith. For most of the last decade, roughly half of the |
| 1:19.7 | tech workers identified as either atheist or agnostic. Yet, that resistance to God, and the gospel |
| 1:26.6 | in particular, has begun to soften in recent years. |
| 1:30.0 | Christians have been present within the tech industry, but for a time, most felt the need to keep their faith private, |
| 1:37.0 | lest it make them an oddity at best and a pariah at worst. |
| 1:41.3 | Or at least, that was the perception. |
| 1:43.9 | Believers like Trey and Michelle Stevens |
| 1:46.1 | felt a greater degree of comfort living out their faith in most, though even they recall |
| 1:51.6 | often feeling like the token Christians in the room when among their peers. That feeling is part of |
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