Circle Back (9 of 26)
Series: How the Church ACTS
Jordan Easley
Acts 14:21-28
Home Depot is famously known by their slogan: You can do it. We can help. The only problem with that is... for some of us... We can't do it. And they can't help!
Some people-like me-have a hard time with honey-do projects, and because of that, there seems to be a lot of incomplete tasks around the house. I'm really good at starting projects, but I'm not so good when it comes to completing projects.
Anyone else like that? [At one point I completely intended to make a porch swing out of barn wood... but somewhere along the way, I lost my Pintrest-Passion... if you know what I mean.]
And that's the way it works. When we start something, most of the time we begin with zeal and passion... excitement and dedication, but many times... for one reason or another, those things tend to fizzle out over time.
We know what that looks like, don't we? Where we start strong... but somewhere along the way we lose interest... and when we lose interest... our passions are redirected to something else.
Thankfully, that wasn't the case for Paul and Barnabas in the book of Acts. It would have been real easy for them to go into the cities of Lystra, Iconium and Pisidian Antioch, and simply preach the gospel, and stir up trouble, and then leave the new disciples to clean up the mess once they were gone...
If they would have done that, it would have been like a GOSPEL TORNADO hitting these towns... and as we know, tornados leave a wake of destruction and typically don't return to help put everything back together.
The apostles could have just kept moving forward when times got tough...but what we're going to see this today is... the apostles didn't do that. They didn't lose focus and abandon the mission midway through.
Instead, they circled back and revisited these cities. Even after his near-death experience in Lystra, after being stoned by an angry mob... [Which, let's be hone ...
Series: How the Church ACTS
Jordan Easley
Acts 14:21-28
Home Depot is famously known by their slogan: You can do it. We can help. The only problem with that is... for some of us... We can't do it. And they can't help!
Some people-like me-have a hard time with honey-do projects, and because of that, there seems to be a lot of incomplete tasks around the house. I'm really good at starting projects, but I'm not so good when it comes to completing projects.
Anyone else like that? [At one point I completely intended to make a porch swing out of barn wood... but somewhere along the way, I lost my Pintrest-Passion... if you know what I mean.]
And that's the way it works. When we start something, most of the time we begin with zeal and passion... excitement and dedication, but many times... for one reason or another, those things tend to fizzle out over time.
We know what that looks like, don't we? Where we start strong... but somewhere along the way we lose interest... and when we lose interest... our passions are redirected to something else.
Thankfully, that wasn't the case for Paul and Barnabas in the book of Acts. It would have been real easy for them to go into the cities of Lystra, Iconium and Pisidian Antioch, and simply preach the gospel, and stir up trouble, and then leave the new disciples to clean up the mess once they were gone...
If they would have done that, it would have been like a GOSPEL TORNADO hitting these towns... and as we know, tornados leave a wake of destruction and typically don't return to help put everything back together.
The apostles could have just kept moving forward when times got tough...but what we're going to see this today is... the apostles didn't do that. They didn't lose focus and abandon the mission midway through.
Instead, they circled back and revisited these cities. Even after his near-death experience in Lystra, after being stoned by an angry mob... [Which, let's be hone ...
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