A new series in Acts. A new question for the congregation: if the people around you asked you to be a busboy, would you be honored or offended? The person they asked in Acts 6 was Stephen. He started at the tables. He ended in the streets, speaking with a wisdom and courage no one could withstand. That’s the invitation.

In the series finale of The Church, Pastor Adam Stadtmiller arrives at the fourth and final purpose — Mission — and immediately reframes what that word means. Mission isn’t the program or the outreach event or the sandwich line, though it can include all of those. Mission is something far larger: the Church functioning as God’s masterpiece on display, making His manifold wisdom known to every power and authority — seen and unseen — through the transformed lives of ordinary people.

Division doesn’t just weaken the church — according to Ephesians 2, it contradicts the entire point of the cross. Pastor Adam Stadtmiller walks through what Jesus actually accomplished: not just saving individuals, but tearing down the wall between them and creating one new humanity. The call to unity isn’t a nicety. It’s the evidence the world is waiting for.

Before anything else can matter — mission, unity, maturity — the church has to settle one question: who are we? Pastor Adam Stadtmiller opens The Church series in Ephesians 1, tracing what it means to be chosen by the Father, redeemed by the Son, and sealed by the Spirit. Not as doctrine to affirm, but as a foundation to stand on.

Two men walk into the same room — one in a gold ring, one in rags — and James watches which seat each is offered. Pastor Joshua Pigg takes partiality as seriously as the letter does: faith that favours is faith that falters.

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