Acts 1:8 ” You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

For forty days following His Resurrection, Jesus spent time with His disciples preparing them, (and those who would become the early Church) for what was next. It was during this time that He gave them “The Great Commission”…that the Gospel Message must go into the whole world. (Matthew 28:19) And then the day of Pentecost happened, and the power of the Holy Spirit came upon them. (Acts 2:1-4) But the fledgling Church was very comfortable as a group together, and it took the murder of Stephen to scatter them to the most remote areas (as they were told by Jesus to do in the first place.) Therefore, the Church today can’t stay hidden within the walls of the building and still obey Jesus by spreading the Gospel widely. We must go outside the confines and safety of the building…clothed with the power from on high…and speak the Gospel boldly to everyone.