today on Summit Life with J.D. Greer.

You see, listen, faith during the problem

is more important than fixing the problem.

And I'm not saying you don't get around to fixing it.

I'm just saying that maybe you stop in whatever situation

and you just say, God God I know that you're sovereign

sovereign Lord all these things happen because you were directing them and I'm

going to be still and I'm going to know that you're God that you're

going to be exalted among the nations. The nation's. Welcome to Summit Life, the Gospel-centered Bible teaching ministry of J.D. Greer,

pastor of the Summit Church in Raleigh, Durham, North Carolina.

I'm your host, Molly Bitevich.

Okay, have you ever noticed that when bad things happen, we can spend so much time focusing on the problem that sometimes we actually lose sight of the solution, even if it's right in front of us.

But today, Pastor J.D. explains that our focus

shouldn't be on our difficulties and failures.

It should be on our faith and the one who can redeem them.

We're continuing our study in the Book of Acts, so if you've missed any of the previous messages in this series, you can find them online at J.D.greir.com.

Pastor J.D. titled Today's Message, The Heroic heroic heart that propelled the movement.

We are studying the book of acts and we are seeing that Christianity did not

start out as an institution they didn't start out as a building program, it

started out as a movement around a message. It was a very unlikely movement because

those that started it had no money, they had no power, they had no armies.

They didn't even have people in strategic positions of influence by which they could sway the society.

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