The Fifth Act | Risk + Reputation - Keithen Schwahn

Church of the City New York

COTC NYC

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🗓️ 7 July 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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This Sunday, Pastor Keithen Schwahn continued our series through the Book of Acts, The Fifth Act, with a teaching from Acts 9:36-43, the story of Peter taking a risk of faith that resulted in raising Tabitha, a faithful disciple of Jesus also known as Dorcas, from the dead. The early disciples were not motivated by reputation but by a desire to imitate Jesus, and the same Spirit that empowered Jesus and the Early Church is available to us today.

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0:00.0	Our teaching text from this evening comes from Acts chapter 9, verses 36 through 40.
0:14.7	In Joppa, there was a disciple named Tabitha.
0:22.0	In Greek, her name is Dorcas.
0:24.3	She was always doing good and helping the poor.
0:27.2	About that time, she became sick and died, and her body was washed and placed in an upstairs
0:31.9	room.
0:33.3	Lida was near Joppa, so when the disciples heard that Peter was in Lida, they sent two men to him and urged him, please come at once.
0:41.4	Peter went with them, and when he arrived, he was taken upstairs to the room.
0:45.4	All the widows stood around him, crying and showing him the robes and other clothing that Dorcas had made while she was still with them.
0:54.0	Peter sent them all out of the
0:55.7	room. Then he got down on his knees and prayed. This is the word of the Lord.
1:06.8	What's up, Church of the City? How are you guys doing? You guys ready? Let's get it. My name is Keithan. If we haven't met, I'm the pastor on the team that leads
1:16.2	youth NYC and college NYC. Yeah, yeah. Represent the crew over there. And tonight we are continuing
1:25.4	in the book of Acts. We've been teaching this book not just like a cute
1:29.4	history lesson of something that God did a long time ago, but we actually read the book of Acts
1:34.8	like a template for what's possible in our life and in our city. Like if a group of people, like just
1:41.5	average people like you and me, are filled with the Holy Spirit.
1:46.0	And we're given this message that Jesus is the king of the universe and that he's taking
1:50.3	ground on the earth. He wants to establish his kingdom on the earth as it is in heaven.
1:54.6	Like what's possible in a city? What's possible in a neighborhood? What's possible in the region
2:00.6	that we live in? And you, if you're
2:03.2	here in this room, you've probably been called to New York. Like, this is your home. This is your
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