Dewey Bertolini's Podcast

It was a matter of life and death. Literally. Make no mistake about this: As you are about to hear in this PODCAST, these “rumblings of discontent,” as Luke characterized them, represented anything but some small-time, garden variety, trivial church-squabble. What happened here in Acts 6 exposed a clash of cultures that tore asunder the awe-inspiring oneness heretofore enjoyed by the Jerusalem Christian Community. You might remember what we observed as recently as the end of Acts 4. Verse 32, “All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared everything they had.” Not any more! Now, sadly, at the beginning of Acts 6, that blessed unity coupled with their selfless generosity Was.No.More. Something had changed. Their fellowship fractured. Their unity dissolved into disunity. A rift developed that literally rent the fragile fabric of unity completely in half. Again, at the risk of sounding redundant, I must stress two vitally important point