Evening: Psalm 118; Acts 7:59-8:8
Stephen serves tables to free the apostles for their important work of prayer and the Word. Stephen is an exemplary servant. He also becomes a powerful teacher about the truth he finds in Jesus, and that brings him into confrontation with the religious authorities. The evil foibles and failings of religious authorities are nowhere more evident than in the stoning and martyrdom of Stephen. They respond to Stephen with arrogance, judgement and murder. People of faith now, however, must open hearts and minds to strangers who speak truth in unexpected ways. Uncomfortable truth – but truth – often springs from unlikely sources.
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