Sunday Service - Actis 1:4-8 "Not By Might"

Why did Jesus tell His disciples to wait — at the exact moment the most urgent mission in human history was beginning?

In Week 6 of the Built series, Pastor Kevin Cox confronts one of the most counterintuitive truths in all of Scripture: the kingdom of God does not advance because the church works harder. It advances because the church depends more. Drawing from Zechariah's word to a discouraged Zerubbabel facing an impossible rebuilding project, and from Jesus' command to His disciples to wait in Jerusalem before launching the mission of the church, this message confronts the subtle idolatry of ministry competence — the belief that strategy, talent, and organizational excellence can produce what only the Holy Spirit can actually produce.

This message unpacks the Hebrew words behind Zechariah's most famous verse, traces the Greek word dunamis — the power Jesus promised His disciples in Acts 1:8 — and calls the church back to a posture this generation has largely lost: genuine, expectant dependence on the Spirit of God.