About this episode

William Klock discusses the challenges of church administration as seen in Acts 6.

The Face of an Angel Acts 6 by William Klock   I hate doing administration stuff. I’m really glad that John handles our finances so well and makes sure all our bills get paid. I don’t like filling out annual parish reports and get annoyed when I have fill out one for ACNA and another for the REC. Why can’t they just ask the same questions and share the information? Our church register is stuffed with Post-It notes going back five or six years so I know what to enter in it whenever I eventually get around to sitting down to make all the entries for baptisms, deaths, weddings, membership, and all of that. And I wonder if Peter had his own First Century Post-It note system for dealing with the dreaded admin work that was perpetually threatening to cut in on his preaching and praying. Because that’s what we come to in Acts 6. The church has been growing quickly. There’s something like 5,000 Christians in Jerusalem. We don’t know how they were organised. We know that the apostles and presumable some others regularly spent time in the temple. But they met together in their homes. Were they divided into what we might think of as “churches” or…

People in this episode

Host: William Klock

Topics covered

• administration
• church growth
• Acts 6
• apostles
• Christian community

Keywords

• administration
• Acts 6
• apostles
• church growth
• Christianity

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: ACNA, REC

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