Little Country Church on the edge of town

Do do do do do do

People coming every day from miles around

For meetings and for Sunday school

And it's very plain to see

It's not the way it used to be.

Welcome to the Word for today, featuring the Bible teaching ministry of Pastor Chuck

Smith, founder of the Calvary Chapel Movement.

This radio program is a chapter-by-chapter verse by-verse study through the entire Bible.

And on today's edition of the Word for today, Pastor Chuck continues his message,

the disciples, men of prayer and the word, as we pick up in Acts chapter 6 verse 1.

And now with today's study, here's Pastor Chuck.

Now, in those days when the number of disciples was multiplied,

we found the church, the Lord adding to the church, and now he's multiplying.

I love the Lord's mathematics.

There are rows of murmuring.

Now, another problem with this community living that was practiced by the early church, sharing everything. Another problem arises here

in chapter six. There arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews because their widows were

neglected in the daily ministration. Now daily the people would come to receive their dole

from the church.

They had everything in common, and so they had a commissary,

and each day they would give out according to the needs of the people,

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