If anything should strike us reading the book of Acts it should be that it was not easy to be the early church. It was not easy to be Paul and his companions, bringing the Good News to people in cities that sometimes did not want to receive in.
In fact, in chapter 17 of Acts we see that both the religious establishment and the government were hostile to what Paul is preaching about Jesus.
But... people still believed!
For Paul, it was worth it because people were coming to hear the Good News and believe about Jesus.
I think too many Christians in America today think that evangelism is supposed to be easy. It's supposed to be easy to have people come to believe the Good News. Or that we can just open up the doors of the church and people will come in. The truth we see in Acts is that evangelism is hard, but that it is also worth it.
What are we willing to risk for the sake of the Gospel message?
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