Stephen first appears in the book of Acts when there is a debate on how the food supply should be distributed. He is described as “a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit” (Acts 6:5 NLT). Acts Chapter seven goes on to describe Stephens’s arrest, trial, and his death. This chapter shows that Stephen was full of faith and the Holy Spirit, and knowledgeable of the scripture. His testimony of how the Jewish leaders were deaf to the truth is not what caused his demise; no, it was Stephens’s undying faith that brought about his death, and it is what brought him into glory.
Peter and Stephen are two of the many people of the early church minchend in the book of Act. However, one man stands out from the rest, and that is Paul. Paul’s ministry was different from the rest of the rest of the apostils in Acts. His ministry started with a mission to destroy the church and ended with him preaching the Good News, the very one that he sought to destroy. Pauls’ ministry covers a majority of the book of Acts; it was a ministry of hope and faith in Christ during the