Sermon Notes
November 17, 2024
Global Impact Summit
The Great Pivot
Mike Kuhn
Acts 8:1-8; 26-38
- I. Introduction: The Great Pivot
- a. The Acts 1:8 pivot: Jerusalem & Judea to Samaria and the uttermost parts
- b. A surprise: Phillip—non-apostle, Greek-speaking, a consecrated lay person
- II. A Pivot from Jerusalem to Samaria
- a. Background: Persecution had scattered the church
- b. Samaria: A despised people
- i. Moved holy sites; changed holy books, polluted the holy line.
- ii. God’s cascading love
- III. A Pivot from Samaria to the uttermost parts of the earth (Acts 1:8)
- a. Philip: the leading candidate for senior pastor in Samaria
- i. “Rise and go.” The desert road to Gaza
- ii. “And he rose and went.”
- b. The Eunuch: What we don’t know about eunuchs.
- i. Outsider to power structures
- ii. Outsider to God’s people
- c. Isaiah 53
- i. “In my place” gospel: “He was wounded for our transgressions.”
- ii. “Jesus suffers with me as a voiceless victim” gospel.
- a. Philip: the leading candidate for senior pastor in Samaria
- IV. Conclusion: Jesus pursues oppressed people through his people
