Text: Acts 4:23-35

 

In the wake of the resurrection, the Apostles and the newly-formed church in Jerusalem stand tall as they proclaim the powerful message of the resurrection, amidst threats, intimidation and persecution. They don’t ask for deliverance, they ask for more boldness! This message is a call to us all to be people of the resurrection, people who contend for boldness, hunger to see God’s healing power at work around us, and are drawn into covenant community.

 

The proof that God raised Jesus from the dead is not the empty tomb, but the full hearts of his transformed disciples. The crowning evidence that he lives is not a vacant grave, but a spirit-filled fellowship. Not a rolled-away stone, but a carried-away church.  — Clarence Jordan