“But as the believers rapidly multiplied, there were rumblings of discontent. The Greek-speaking believers complained about the Hebrew-speaking believers, saying that their widows were being discriminated against in the daily distribution of food.”
Acts of the Apostles 6:1 NLT
At this moment the church is growing, but there is some issues between the congregation . The Greek believers are complaining about the Hebrew because to their eyes the Greek widows are not being able to get food from the daily distribution.
Now the meaning of the word widow is
a woman who has lost her spouse by death and has not remarried.
So these Greek widows have no husbands therefore, they have no one to fend for them support them, feed them, or take care of them. So we brought great distraught on the Greek believers, knowing that their widows were not being able to receive food. They believe they were being discriminated because they were Greek, not Hebrew. Because of this there was discontent in the church.
Now we have to understand. How they feel imagine your Grandmother lets say because she was a different race wasn’t able to get food how would that makes you feel it would be sad you would be angry. Why are they treating her like she didn’t do anything wrong. She has no husband to support her. They shouldn’t be like that.
“So the Twelve called a meeting of all the believers. They said, “We apostles should spend our time teaching the word of God, not running a food program.”
Acts of the Apostles 6:2
Now in the apostles, see this day, tell the believers, Hebrew Greek, and all that they should be preaching the word of God they should be teaching people about Jesus and all the miracles he has done . They should not be spending their time running a food program. Now they are not saying they should not have a food program. They are saying they would be more valuable teaching the word of God, for they have seen Jesus the eight slept, and walked with him. They seen him do miraculous things, including raise from the dead. So they would definitely be more valuable teaching nonbelievers about him rather than keep the peace and run a food program.
“And so, brothers, select seven men who are well respected and are full of the Spirit and wisdom. We will give them this responsibility. Then we apostles can spend our time in prayer and teaching the word.””
Acts of the Apostles 6:3-4
That the apostles decided the best thing to do would be to select men who are respected and full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, and let them run the food program and deal with any complications with the congregation . This will give the apostles the ability to spend their time in prayer, teaching the word and teaching about the miraculous things Jesus has done.
“Everyone liked this idea, and they chose the following: Stephen (a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit), Philip, Procorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas of Antioch (an earlier convert to the Jewish faith). These seven were presented to the apostles, who prayed for them as they laid their hands on them.”
Acts of the Apostles 6:5-6 NLT
The whole congregation like the idea, and they chose to seven men above, who were all well respected, had wisdom, and especially were blessed with the Holy Spirit.
This might be completely off topic, but when I got out of this was even though the church was People were having conflict and discontent, and by having discontent and conflict in the church it was causing the apostles to not be able to focus on prayer and teaching the word of God so they had to find a solution for this. They decided to have seven other people run a program so that they can focus their time on prayer and teaching the word of God.
I know I speak for myself when I say sometimes we all have that sometimes there’s something that is preventing us from listening to the word of God, or joining a Bible study or even a prayer line and we need to figure out and be like the apostles. First we need to figure out what is stopping us what is taking our attention away from God, and then We need to find a solution that works the best.
For example, let’s say you want to join the Bible study or you want to do your homework but the TikTok is too interesting well find a solution even if you have to make it where you don’t go on TikTok that whole day that you know you’re gonna need to be on the Bible study then you cut that out for that day.