Thrive Deeper: Acts 5-8
Acts 5–8 traces a decisive movement in the life of the early church: from a Spirit-filled Jerusalem community marked by holiness and bold witness, through internal pressure and external persecution, toward the gospel’s expansion beyond Jerusalem.
And this section begins with a story that feels almost too severe for the New Testament. We expect judgment like this in the wilderness, at Sinai, or in the prophetic warnings of Israel’s history — but here it is, right in the middle of the Spirit-filled church. Ananias and Sapphira do not persecute the apostles, deny the resurrection, or lead a…
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