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Podcast: The Amazing Bible. Book Club
Episode: Acts 6-7 - The First Christian Martyr, Stephen
Description: In these two chapters of Acts, the church was growing so much that the 12 Apostles needed help, so they chose 7 men who had a good reputation and full of the Spirit and wisdom to be in charge of taking care of the people in need, especially the feeding of the widows. They were Stephen, Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas, a proselyte from Antioch (6:5). Nowadays we would call this the first deacon ordination. Stephen also performed great wonders and signs among the people which cause the Synagogue of the Freedmen to come before the council. They had false...