Let’s look at who God is, what God will do, modern leadership culture, and Reconstruction-era and modern examples of “bricks without straw”
How not to win friends and influence people: Stephen speaks to the council, gets stoned, Saul shows up.
Chapters 1 &2 of Acts of the Apostles: what God’s people did in uncertain and changing times, how the fragile, freaked-out, and fallible people of God prayed and took the Gospel into new places.