When You Face Opposition

October 26, 2025 • Scott Scruggs

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About this series

Everyone loves a good underdog story. Whether it comes from sports or business, an underdog story can rise from the most unlikely places. But one of the greatest underdog stories of all time isn’t about a Cinderella team or a company starting in a garage—it’s about the church.

Unstoppable tells the story of how a small band of fishermen, farmers, wives, and widows grew into the largest movement of faith in history, transforming the world. But it didn’t spread with the speed and strength you might imagine. It struggled—deeply.

So how did this fragile beginning become a movement that could not be stopped? When you step back, it just might be the greatest underdog story in human history.

About this message

Ever feel like life keeps pushing against you? Like no matter how hard you try, the current is always stronger? Sometimes it’s just small stuff—the traffic, the deadlines, the misunderstandings. But other times, it’s deeper. It’s resistance that shakes your confidence, tests your faith, and makes you wonder if it’s even worth it.

This Sunday, Pastor Scotty continues our Unstoppable series by showing how the early church faced real opposition—political systems, cultural rejection, even violence—and yet somehow, it only made them stronger. They didn’t just survive; they grew into a movement that changed the world.

So how did they do it? And what can we learn when our own faith feels like it’s swimming upstream?

Join us as we discover how every obstacle can become an opening for God’s power to move through us. Because Jesus faced every kind of opposition—and still overcame. That same unstoppable Spirit is alive in us today.