Today's church has lost its power because it is so much like the world. The world has entered the church as Christians think they can win people by becoming like them. Yet the world remains unchanged and considers the church an utter irrelevance! But the thing that struck Martyn Lloyd-Jones about Acts 7 was the amazing contrast between Stephen and those who opposed him. Here is a Christian who is so different from the world - so Christlike, so uncompromising, so faithful to the gospel (even unto death), yet so full of power and of the Holy Spirit - that the impact of his witness is still being felt 2,000 years later!
