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What Are the Costs of Following Jesus?

August 3, 2025

Speaker:

Josh Williams

Series

Being the Church: Lessons from the Book of Acts

Among the most compelling stories in the Bible are several contained in the Book of Acts, written by the humble and gentle physician, Luke. In Acts, Luke tells the story of the birth and expansion of the church in the early decades following the Lord’s death, resurrection, and ascension. He tells the story of the coming and work of the Holy Spirit, the ministry of the Apostles Peter and Paul, and of other early saints. He tells the story of early opposition to the faith, of the first martyrs, and of the courage of early Christians in the face of resistance and even death. At the beginning of the book, the Christian community is limited to Jewish believers mostly in and around Jerusalem; by the end of the book, the church is growing and expanding among Jewish and Gentile communities throughout the Mediterranean world and beyond. Come out for this 10 week series and join us in living out in our own day and time what it is to be the church together.

What are the costs of following Jesus? Sometimes, it’s easy to think about our lives as our existing lives + Jesus. In this scenario, Jesus is a simple add on to what we are already doing. As we continue our series in Acts, we will be challenged by bold lives full of integrity that face staggering costs as they live for Jesus and live like Jesus even amidst intense pressures. After all, Jesus says true life comes through denying ourselves and taking up our crosses. What does that look like? Come Sunday to hear what that might mean given our own intense pressures in our personal worlds and the world at large.

Speaker

Josh Williams

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