When Grumbling Enters the Church | Acts 6:1-6

Sometimes the greatest things fall from the smallest causes. Troy stood for ten years against the greatest army in the ancient world — and fell to a gift its own people pulled inside the gates. A submarine isn't destroyed by what's fired at it, but by a wrench dropped on a steel deck. A Florida house doesn't fall to the hurricane — it falls to the termites. And the church of Jesus Christ — the church that has outlasted empires and persecutions — does not usually fall to the army outside. She falls to what gets inside. In Acts 4, the church faces the army at the gate. In Acts 5, the enemy gets inside through the heart of a lying couple. And in Acts 6, the attack changes again. No soldiers. No scandal. Just a complaint. A murmur. A small ripple of dissatisfaction at the back of the room. It looks like a footnote. It is actually the third movement of the same battle — and one of the enemy's most effective strategies against the church. We'll see how Christ protects his body by raising up Spirit-filled servants right in the middle of the wound, and what it looks like for grumbling to be transformed into growth.