Persecution and Power

Jul 9, 2023    Marcus Stenson

The church in Antioch is a powerful case study in how God turns pain into purpose. It's where the gospel crossed the walls of class, race, status, religion, and ethnicity. It's where something so incredible and unprecedented happened that the world needed a new name for them. "Christians", they were called...for the first time. But all of this was born from a series of events that seemed to be pointlessly painful and tragic. This message explores how God can even use the things that once persecuted you to empower you in His mission.


What if I told you the PRESSURE and the PAIN you feel isn't POINTLESS? What if we can learn from this church’s breakthrough. What if it can lead you to one? What if it can lead us as the kingdom of God to one?