# Counterfeits and Consumers | Darren Rouanzoin

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Podcast: [GARDEN CHURCH Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/garden-church-podcast-6461574)
Published: 2026-04-19T22:02:30+00:00
Episode link: https://share.transistor.fm/s/71103e0a
Audio file: https://media.transistor.fm/71103e0a/83e8bb0d.mp3
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## Resource

In Acts 8, the gospel moves into Samaria and a whole city begins to come alive. But Luke pulls back the curtain on something we can't miss: wherever God is moving, a counterfeit power is always at work. Simon the Sorcerer had an entire city under his spell, and two thousand years later, the same power is still shaping us. We just call it something different now. This message confronts the quiet danger of being baptized but never actually changed. Of believing the right things, showing up on Sunday, and still running the old operating system inside a new kingdom. Are we consuming the things of God, or participating in the mission of Jesus? Are we trying to earn what He only gives as a gift? If you've been exhausted from performing or sensing that there's more of the Holy Spirit available to you than you've ever received, this is an invitation to stop striving and surrender. Jesus isn't in the sparing business. He's in the saving business. And He's coming after you.

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