You can read Acts 12 online here
v3 King Herod – after killing James – ‘after he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter’ – we clearly influence our leaders.
v5 Who do I “pray fervently to God for” ?
v8 – Peter slept with his belt unbuckled
v9 – he thought he was seeing a vision – even apostles can’t tell sometimes
v19 – Guards that were with Peter were put to death – who was responsible for this? Peter? God? The ’system’, the soldiers?
v22 – How many of us would still be kicking around today if we failed to give Glory to God as Herod did – I wonder if the worms ate the ‘royal robes’ too.
Here are the slides with the passage and images from the message this past sunday if you missed it or wanted some recall.
What do you think?
I’m not saying we all need to be poor. The opposite of greed is not poverty, but generosity.
How might you be intentional and strategic about living a life of generosity and not greed or selfishness?
What would it look like to not plan your life towards independence, and not needing one another, or God himself, but planning on a life of generosity that needs inter-dependence & community in return?
There’s a quote by bono i believe in the song a beautiful day that goes along the lines of – what you don’t have already, you don’t need now’. Could there be some truth in that?
