We’ve spent time lately on what it takes to carry the gospel well. In “The Baptism in the Holy Spirit” we returned to Acts 1:8 – “you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you” – and saw that the Greek dynamis means power not for status, but to boldly proclaim Christ. It’s an experience given to make us effective witnesses, from Jerusalem to the ends of the earth.
But why does this mission carry such urgency? “There Is No Other Name” answered it plainly with Acts 4:12 – “There is no salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.” The power we’re given has one supreme purpose, because there is only one name that saves. In Jesus Christ, God takes upon himself the full weight of what happened at the cross.
And this isn’t new – it runs back to the earliest church. In “Ignatius and his writings to the Ephesians,” we saw a disciple of the Apostle John, martyred around A.D. 107-110, calling believers “imitators of God” and declaring the deity of Christ and the sufficiency of His blood. The mission we carry today is the same faith they were willing to die for.
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