Acts 15:36-41 Saul and Barnabus were friends and partners in ministry in the early church. They agreed in doctrine and were well-matched in passion for the mission to reach others for Christ. One day they found that they had what the scriptures call a “sharp disagreement” about a young man whom Barnabus wanted to take…
Acts 9:1 Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the Lord’s disciples. He went to the high priest 2 and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any there who belonged to the Way, whether men or women, he might take them as prisoners to Jerusalem.…
Acts 7:8 Now Stephen, a man full of God’s grace and power, performed great wonders and signs among the people. 9 Opposition arose, however, from members of the Synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called)—Jews of Cyrene and Alexandria as well as the provinces of Cilicia and Asia—who began to argue with Stephen. 10…
Acts 6:1 “In those days when the number of disciples was increasing, the Hellenistic Jews among them complained against the Hebraic Jews because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of food.”
It didn’t take long before the early church experienced discontent and stress between the members. Perhaps the Bible should have…