Word Alive International Outreach Sermon Of The Week

We're wired differently. Some of us use our heads and lead with words; others use our hands and lead with work- we take action. Or, to say it another way, some of us are IDEA people and others are IMPLEMENTERS. What's more important? Turns out, the Early Church learned that BOTH are needed. In Acts 6, they faced a dilemma: should the WORDS / IDEA people stop laboring in Scripture and prayer to oversee the distribution of food? Or should they continue doing their thing and empower another group of leaders to join the mix. That is, should they empower some WORK / IMPLEMENTERS to join their ranks? They took the second option and invited MORE people to the top tier of leadership. The rest is history. The Bible tells us that the Early Church grew by RAPID ADDITION until this point. They grew from 120 to 3,000 (Acts 1:15, 2:47). Then to 5,000 (4:4). Then "more and more" were ADDED to their number (5:14). Yet when the disciples empowered another group of leaders, the church began to MULTIPLY (6:7). And, more pe