Christianity 101 - Our Blueprint (2)
Series: Christianity 101
Donald Cantrell
Acts 2:42-47
Theme: The early church gives us the blueprint for church growth
I - The Specified Faith of the Early Church (42)
II - The Soul-Searching Fear of the Early Church (43)
III - The Satisfying Fellowship of the Early Church (44 - 46)
IV - The Significant Favor of the Early Church (47a and 47b)
V - The Supernatural Flourishing of the Early Church (47c and 47d))
This sermon contains a fully alliterated outline, with sub-points.
BLUEPRINTS
Can you build a real house without blueprints? Sure you can throw up a square storage shed maybe without them, but do you not need to have some kind of visual plan of the dimensions, how many rooms, where the rooms go, and so on in order to start building an actual house?
I remember when I worked through school with a summer job putting together farm equipment, fertilizer spreaders, tedders, hay mowers and such. My first day all I saw were a bunch of big metal pieces laying around and some bags of nuts and bolts. If I had been told to get building without any written instructions or at least a machine that had already been put together to go by, there's no way I could have even begun.
You can have the perfectly prepared property, all the materials and building skills necessary, lots of manpower and money, but if you don't know what you're building and why, none of it is of any use.
Sean Harder
The bible gives us the blueprint of the church, in the bible we read the churches founder and foundation. In reading the book of Acts and the other books of the New Testament, we read of the churches fabrication and formalization.
We do not have to reinvent the wheel today, the foundation has already been laid, and we don't even have to figure out how to form a church, because that has already been established for us. The church is not new and it has been around for around 2,000 years, its foundation and founder are t ...
Series: Christianity 101
Donald Cantrell
Acts 2:42-47
Theme: The early church gives us the blueprint for church growth
I - The Specified Faith of the Early Church (42)
II - The Soul-Searching Fear of the Early Church (43)
III - The Satisfying Fellowship of the Early Church (44 - 46)
IV - The Significant Favor of the Early Church (47a and 47b)
V - The Supernatural Flourishing of the Early Church (47c and 47d))
This sermon contains a fully alliterated outline, with sub-points.
BLUEPRINTS
Can you build a real house without blueprints? Sure you can throw up a square storage shed maybe without them, but do you not need to have some kind of visual plan of the dimensions, how many rooms, where the rooms go, and so on in order to start building an actual house?
I remember when I worked through school with a summer job putting together farm equipment, fertilizer spreaders, tedders, hay mowers and such. My first day all I saw were a bunch of big metal pieces laying around and some bags of nuts and bolts. If I had been told to get building without any written instructions or at least a machine that had already been put together to go by, there's no way I could have even begun.
You can have the perfectly prepared property, all the materials and building skills necessary, lots of manpower and money, but if you don't know what you're building and why, none of it is of any use.
Sean Harder
The bible gives us the blueprint of the church, in the bible we read the churches founder and foundation. In reading the book of Acts and the other books of the New Testament, we read of the churches fabrication and formalization.
We do not have to reinvent the wheel today, the foundation has already been laid, and we don't even have to figure out how to form a church, because that has already been established for us. The church is not new and it has been around for around 2,000 years, its foundation and founder are t ...
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