Acts - Authenticity That Fuels Mission

This week Pastor Henry reflects on how authentic faith is the necessary fuel for mission.  We are to look beneath the surface of their spiritual lives.  What happens on the inside ultimately determines what stands on the outside. God is not interested in religious performance or artificial spirituality but deeply desires sincerity and truth in our inner lives. Authentic faith is a transformative journey that flows from a heart captured by Jesus, naturally leading to a life of unity, radical generosity, and honest living before God. 

But a man named Ananias, with his wife Sapphira, sold a piece of property, and with his wife's knowledge he kept back for himself some of the proceeds and brought only a part of it and laid it at the apostles' feet. But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back for yourself part of the proceeds of the land? - Acts 5:1-3 (ESV)