Humanly speaking, it’s baffling to try and work out just why the religious leaders were so threatened by the message of Jesus that they were comfortable to punish and even execute those who preached this ‘good news’. And yet even through these tragic events, Jesus kept building his church, and this is exactly what we see as Jodie teaches us from the next instalment in our series from the New Testament book of Acts. This time we’re looking at the remarkable message and courage of a man named Stephen, and we see how his word brought great jealousy and anger to the very people who should have welcomed him.