Season 5 Episode 11 | Acts 6:8-7:60

Neil, Fiona and Jen delve into the Acts of the Apostles where the strapline 'Go! Go! Go!' seems fitting. 

In this episode we continue to hear of the persecution of the early church, this time through the martyrdom of Stephen. There's discussion of Stephen's preaching, the description of his face as being angelic and the response of the religious leaders.

There's also correspondence on all manner of topics, plus Glover's Others is about Hagar, the first person ever to name God in the book of Genesis. What's The Gen? shares 7 statements about Gen Z from a recent report into the spiritual state of the world's children. These are:

1. Diverse but avoid confrontation
2. Less religious (25% attend church each week but not hostile to church)
3. Authenticity and anonymity matter online (1 in 3 have finsta account)
4. Constantly connected (damaging mental health/sleep)
5. Entrepreneurs 
6. Self learning (watching videos, collaboration, creativity preferred ways to learn)

This episode was engineered and edited by Aimee Higgins.

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Show Notes

The Outspoken Bible is hosted by Fiona Stewart with Neil Glover and Jen Robertson. All opinions are those of the individual contributors and don't necessarily reflect the view of the Scottish Bible Society as an organisation. 

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Acts 6:8-7:60

Acts For Everyone (Tom Wright)

The Message of Acts: To The Ends of the Earth (John Stott)

Spiritual State of the World's Children (OneHope, Inc. (2009))

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Love, Death and Resurrection resources (SBS)

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Get in touch here or by emailing outspoken@scottishbiblesociety.org.

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Next time we will be talking about Acts 8:1-40