Spiritual Growth Indicators52

Acts 6

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Speaker Rev. TAN YONG HENG
Sermon Date 2012-02-19

Courage to Serve (6:8-10)
Now Stephen, a man full of God’s grace and power, did great wonders and miraculous signs among the people.

    - The human factor
    - The divine factor
    - The situation factor
“We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are”
- Max De Pree

Knowledge of God’s Word (6:11-14)
“Then they secretly persuaded some men to say, ‘We have heard Stephen speak words of blasphemy against Moses and against God”

    - Balance
    - Insight
    - Practice
“Oh, to be bathed in a text of Scripture, and to let it be sucked up in your very soul, till it saturates your heart!”
- Charles Spurgeon

Transformation of Life (6:15)
“All who were sitting in the Sanhedrin looked intently at Stephen, and they saw that his face was like the face of an angel”

    - Favor
    - Attributes
    - Character
    - Energy
If we function according to our ability alone, we get the glory; if we function according to the power of the Spirit within us, God gets the glory. He wants to reveal Himself to a watching world.”
- Henry T. Blackaby

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