The biggest accusation against Christians by our world is hypocrisy. Hypocrisy simply means being or believing one thing but your life looking like the complete opposite. So we end up looking like a well polished home bearing the name of Christ but inside we are filled up with the decay and rot of some particular sin. Hypocrisy is interesting for followers of Jesus because what we believe, we believe by faith - and Faith in itself cannot be seen. So how are people supposed to know that we even have faith? The Bible says that we can turn faith which is unseen into something tangible that those around us can see so that they can experience the beauty of salvation in Jesus. So let’s continue in our series going through the book of Acts together as we look at a shocking example of how God dealt with an instance of hypocrisy that threatened to undo the young church in Acts 4-5.
