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Celebrate Community ChurchAuthor: Celebrate Community Church
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When You're Truly Convinced // April 26th // Noah Rollins
Monday, 27 April, 2026
This powerful message challenges us to examine the depth of our conviction about Jesus Christ by exploring Acts chapter 4, where Peter and John face their first real opposition after healing a lame man. The central question cuts to the heart of our faith: when you are truly convinced of who Jesus is, can you stay silent about him? We see Peter and John arrested and commanded to stop speaking about Jesus, yet their response is remarkable. They declare they cannot help but speak about what they have seen and heard. This wasn't manufactured boldness or religious obligation. It was the natural overflow of genuine conviction. The message confronts our modern tendency to be bold about politics, sports teams, or personal opinions while remaining strangely quiet about the hope we've found in Christ. It asks us to flip the question: if we are silent about Jesus, could it be we're not really convinced? The early church didn't pray for easier circumstances but for greater boldness within their circumstances. They asked God to strengthen them, not remove the pressure. This reveals a fundamentally different approach to faith than our comfort-seeking culture promotes. The gospel, when lived faithfully, will create tension and cost us something. If our faith never makes anyone uncomfortable, never creates friction, never requires sacrifice, we must examine whether we're truly living as witnesses to the resurrected Christ.Subscribe https://www.youtube.com/@CelebrateChurchCelebrate Church is led by Pastor Noah Rollins. Our vision is for people to MEET JESUS so they can go out and BE JESUS.Stay Connected!Visit us at 1000 South Sycamore Avenue in Sioux Falls, SD.Website: https://www.celebrate.church/Celebrate Church Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CelebrateSF/Celebrate Church Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/celebrate.church





