Today on Summit Life, a challenging message from Pastor J.D. Greer.

What if you knew the cure for cancer, but you were like, you know what?

I just don't want to go public with it because it would end up on all these legal battles,

and I don't want the fame of it, and I just, it's just a hassle. So I'm just going to be quiet about it.

How cruel and heartless would you have to be to know that and to not share it with a world that is literally dying because they don't know it.

I don't think it's a problem that you need motivated, it's a belief problem. Welcome back to Summit Life with Pastor, Author, and Apologist J.D. Greer.

As always, I'm your host Molly Bitevich.

Today we are kicking off a new teaching series called Sent.

It's a study in the Book of Acts, and Pastor J.D. will be unpacking the birth and

spread of the early church

and furthering the gospel message.

But don't worry, this isn't just a history lesson.

Pastor JD is challenging us to reframe how we think about the church.

It's not just a place we attend once a week. It's actually a

worldwide movement of God and we're called to be an active part of the team. Now

remember if you ever miss a message in our teaching series you can always catch up on our website

jideygrear dot com so are you ready grab your Bible and turn to the book of acts and

let's get started

I'm not sure what images come to your mind when you hear the word church, but I'm pretty sure that it's a good ways

awe from how church was understood by the first people who use the term and how they

saw church in the first century. In the Greek New Testament the word translated

church is the word Ecclesia and word echlesia literally means an assembly. It means a group

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