Acts 6:4 is about the priorities required of pastors for church growth. Each pastor encounters the daily dilemma between the good, the better and the best. Every pastor is pelted with unending options. All pastors yearn to embrace ‘what is excellent’ (Phil. 1:10). Acts 6:4 is God’s way to spell ‘relief’ for the bewildered minister. Two of Luke’s important purposes in Acts are to teach preachers to expect opposition to the preaching of the
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