To live as Christ

Acts 6:8-7:60 

Stephen is an ordinary man that God fills with the holy spirt and uses in an extraordinary way and that service results in his death Somewhere in our consumer Christianity we got the idea that following Christ is safe and comfortable. The reality is that doing the will of God can be incredibly dangerous and often it costs people their lives. God uses ordinary people in extraordinary ways but if we would be used we must accept the extraordinary risks.