Acts 6:1-7 - "Solving For Unity"

All people, even Christians, are attracted to similarity and familiarity. In a diverse body of believers, this tendency can create fissures and fault lines in the congregation. And that’s exactly what we see in today’s passage. Diversity can lead to division, which means we must be constantly solving for unity, even as we resist uniformity. In our passage, we see how this whole process plays out in the early church in just seven verses: 1. Diversity leads to division (v. 1); 2. Division leads to addition (vv. 2-6); and 3. Addition leads to multiplication (v. 7).