Four things the first church devoted itself to, treated as a blueprint rather than a historical note. Back from Israel, Pastor Adam puts the uncomfortable question to his own congregation: ten years in, we have gotten wider — have we gotten deeper?

Selling animals to pilgrims was a service, not a scam — the corruption was the markup and who it pushed out. Pastor Joe Brandi works the temple cleansing through to the claim underneath it: the building is replaced by a person, and then by everyone in him.

Jesus goes looking for one man by name. Pastor Adam builds on that, borrows a line from his daughter about churches that treat people like Instagram followers, and admits he has no idea what happened under the fig tree.

Jesus starts his public ministry at a wedding that has run out of wine — no speech, no marketing, no investors. Pastor Adam works through the symbolism, the six jars filled to the brim, and the detail that the servants knew before anyone important did.

John says four words — look, the Lamb of God — and two of his own disciples walk away after Jesus. He does nothing to stop it. Pastor Adam builds the message on the freeing part of that: you are not responsible for the encounter.

Agabus binds his own hands with Paul’s belt, and everyone present — Luke included — begs him not to go. Pastor Adam sits with how hard that is: community is where you hear, and then you still decide.

Paul preaches a man out of a third-storey window and then raises him. Pastor Adam uses it to ask whether that power is still on offer, and hands over the line the message turns on: if you don’t believe in miracles, you will be proven right.

Three words in Acts 20 carry the message: he was accompanied by. Pastor Adam argues that who travels with you sets where you end up, shows how the Greek makes encouragement a shovel rather than a compliment, and names what changed between nineteen and twenty-five.

Paul never preached against Artemis and never called a boycott. He said gods made by human hands are not gods, people believed it, and the trade collapsed on its own. Pastor Adam takes that into a city that is post-Christian rather than pre-Christian.