What Now? (Acts) | When the Pressure is On
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What Now? (Acts) | When the Pressure is On
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What comes out of you when the pressure is on? When you're backed into a corner, when the crowd turns hostile, when the cost of following Jesus becomes real, what surfaces?
In Acts 7, Stephen stands before the Sanhedrin facing false accusations and a hostile crowd. He could have softened his message, managed his image, bought himself some time. Instead, what comes out of him is a Spirit-filled retelling of Israel's entire story and an unflinching declaration that Jesus is Lord. The pressure didn't corrupt him. It revealed him.
This message from Pastor Cory explores what it looks like to be so formed by the Spirit of the risen Jesus that even opposition becomes an opportunity for witness. Stephen didn't perform courage. He had been shaped by something deeper than fear. And when the moment came, that's what showed up.
The question Acts 7 puts to each of us is simple and searching: when life squeezes you, what comes out?
Part of the ongoing series What Now? — walking through the book of Acts together at Summer Street Church.