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Series: Unfinished - Acts
Tim Badal
Acts 2:1-13
Over the past couple of weeks we've started a series we're calling ''Unfinished: A study from the book of Acts.'' We're using Acts as a model for how ministry in the church needs to be done. The book is a biography describing how God's Spirit fell on a group of people. Even though they weren't famous or extraordinary, God used them to change the world-even amid great obstacles. He used these ordinary and frail people in the face of government and worldly opposition.
So while we observe how they were successful in their day, we need to realize the job of the church is not done. It was left unfinished then, and it will not be finished until the return of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. We too have work to do. We pick up the mantle as frail and broken people as well. Even though we too aren't famous or extraordinary, we are praying for the same thing they prayed for: the coming of the Holy Spirit in a new and real way, so that we might boldly go out professing Jesus Christ and change the world as they did.
We've already journeyed a long way into this study. In Acts 1, we learned that the book was a second volume telling of the work Jesus did. Luke first wrote his Gospel to describe what Jesus taught and did. He then wrote this second book for his friend Theophilus, with the purpose of telling him the rest of the story. He wanted to tell him what was transpiring in the hearts of the people some 30 years after Jesus' death, burial and resurrection. What impact were these things having in the church Jesus started?
In Acts 1, we read how Jesus gave His final commands to His disciples. Even though He had told them He was leaving, they still didn't get it until the saw Him ascend into heaven in radiant glory. They had gone to a high place where angels came to tell these disciples that Jesus would come back in the same way as He left earth-blameless, pure and radiant, as the ...
Series: Unfinished - Acts
Tim Badal
Acts 2:1-13
Over the past couple of weeks we've started a series we're calling ''Unfinished: A study from the book of Acts.'' We're using Acts as a model for how ministry in the church needs to be done. The book is a biography describing how God's Spirit fell on a group of people. Even though they weren't famous or extraordinary, God used them to change the world-even amid great obstacles. He used these ordinary and frail people in the face of government and worldly opposition.
So while we observe how they were successful in their day, we need to realize the job of the church is not done. It was left unfinished then, and it will not be finished until the return of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. We too have work to do. We pick up the mantle as frail and broken people as well. Even though we too aren't famous or extraordinary, we are praying for the same thing they prayed for: the coming of the Holy Spirit in a new and real way, so that we might boldly go out professing Jesus Christ and change the world as they did.
We've already journeyed a long way into this study. In Acts 1, we learned that the book was a second volume telling of the work Jesus did. Luke first wrote his Gospel to describe what Jesus taught and did. He then wrote this second book for his friend Theophilus, with the purpose of telling him the rest of the story. He wanted to tell him what was transpiring in the hearts of the people some 30 years after Jesus' death, burial and resurrection. What impact were these things having in the church Jesus started?
In Acts 1, we read how Jesus gave His final commands to His disciples. Even though He had told them He was leaving, they still didn't get it until the saw Him ascend into heaven in radiant glory. They had gone to a high place where angels came to tell these disciples that Jesus would come back in the same way as He left earth-blameless, pure and radiant, as the ...
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