The previous chapter ended with the killing of Stephen by an angry and enraged Sanhedrin who could not tolerate the truth which he spoke and so they stoned him to death outside the city walls. Stephen was not the last. What happened that day started a wildfire of persecution that led to the scattering of believers all over the place. And what seemed to be the end of the movement is actually the beginning of God’s Expansion.
Persecution did not stop the church– it scattered it and expanded it.
Today as we study Acts 8, let us find three important Truths about the Expansion of God’s Movement.
