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When the word, not the world, becomes the majority of your week, your life will start to change.

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today's devotional. Hey, what's up everybody? Happy Monday. Thanks for starting your week with us on the

Daily Drive. My name is Bro, and it is great to be back with you. And a big shout out to my man

Carlos for all the awesome stuff last week. I mean, he is such a great, I mean a great guy.

And it's so grateful for him and all the people that we have on our team. We've been walking

through a book in the New Testament section of the Bible called the Book of Acts. It's the history

of the church, these Jesus followers, who ended up changing the world.

And while there is story after story of amazing people, the chief character of this whole movement

is the Holy Spirit of God. I mean, the book really could be called the Acts of the Holy Spirit.

Because as he blows into their lives and empowers them and encourages them

and comforts them and opens up doors for them and equips them, they make a difference.

We left off midway through Chapter 11, where we see the good news of Jesus,

breaking down barriers and changing the lives of all kinds of people who were formerly considered like outsiders.

The gospel, which simply means the good news,

had traveled about 300 miles north of Jerusalem with the church with birth to a place called Antioch.

Now, Antioch was the third largest city in the Roman Empire.

It was heavily influenced by Roman and Greek culture and all their variety of pagan gods.

It was a crazy and dark culture.

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