Acts 8:1-25 || The Gospel Breaks Boundaries

Andrew Peterson is a great composer and a great theologian. His recent hit —Is He Worthy?—is wonderful. Based on Revelation 5, he reflects in the lyrics about the worthiness of a God who sets a broken world right, whose light cannot be overcome by the darkness of sin and evil, whose faithfulness pursues a faithless people that he loves so very much. If our God is worthy, then we owe him our lives.

The German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer spoke of God’s worthiness often. Not long before he was tortured and executed by Hitler's SS for a faith that dared to call out the evil of the Nazi regime, he wrote these words: “When God calls someone to himself he bids him come and die.” For Bonhoeffer, that wasn’t strange. It was obvious to him, and apparently to deacon Stephen. Jesus died for us that we might live. And he asks of us to display that life for all to see. 

Come Sunday to sing our God’s worth and to display new life in him.