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Peter heals Aeneas in Lydda and raises Tabitha in Joppa, and the whole region turns to Jesus. But the point of Acts 9 isn't the miracle. It's the kind of people the Spirit is forming.

Pastor Bill Dogterom walks through Acts 9:32-43 and asks what it looks like to live like Peter, who has been around Jesus long enough to know he's not the healer, and like Tabitha, a widow whose ordinary faithfulness to the poor leaves a hole in the community when she's gone. The same Spirit who raised Jesus from the dead lives in us. The question is whether we'll be discerning enough to notice what God is already doing, and humble enough to step in without making it about ourselves.

Part of our series Church on Fire, a journey through the book of Acts.

Acts 9:32-43