If your faith has ever felt shaky, or you've watched someone you care about walk away from the church, this message is worth your time. Lead Pastor Jon Stoe opens the new series Acts: To the Ends of the Earth by asking a question most Christians have never seriously sat with: if the first followers of Jesus never owned a Bible, never read one, and still turned the world upside down, what exactly was the foundation of their faith? The answer isn't what a lot of people assume.

Jon traces the explosive beginning of the early church through Acts chapters 1 and 2, from Jesus' final conversation with his disciples before the ascension to the moment the Holy Spirit fell on Pentecost and 3,000 people converted in a single day. Along the way he takes on the new atheists, compares how Christianity spread against Islam and Judaism, and lands on something that's both historically defensible and personally urgent. The foundation wasn't a philosophy or a set of teachings. It was a single, verifiable claim: they saw a dead man walking. And that, Jon argues, is still the only message with enough weight to hold the next generation.

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