CLOSE BUT FAR || Curtis Rosinski || The Book of Acts

You can be around the right things and still miss God completely. In this message, Curtis Rosinski walks through Acts 8:9–40 and asks the question every person in the room needs to sit with: are you following Jesus, or are you following what Jesus can do for you? In Acts 8, two men encounter the power of God — and walk away very differently. Simon the sorcerer believed, got baptized, and followed Philip everywhere. But when Peter saw his heart, he said plainly: you have no part in this. Philip, on the other hand, walked away from a full-blown revival in Samaria the moment the Spirit said go south — and ended up leading an Ethiopian official to Christ on a desert road. Same chapter. Two completely different postures. One tried to use God. The other surrendered to him.