Title: Simple Church
Series: The Acts of the Holy Spirit (13)
Author: Collin Wimberly
Text: Acts 2:42-47
CIT - Luke describes life in the early church just after Pentecost.
Proposition - The church today needs to experience the same dynamic church life that the early church had.
INTRODUCTION:
Early in ministry, I would go to conferences at large, successful churches, to find out what they were doing and why they were doing it. I visited FBC Jacksonville, Fl, Bellview Baptist Church, in Memphis where Adrian Rodgers was pastor, and Northpoint Church in Atlanta Ga, where Andy Stanley, Charles Stanley's son is the pastor. They were all large churches, with beautiful buildings and many staff members. I would try to bring home what they were doing, I wanted to model my ministry after theirs. After all, it worked for them, so it should work for me.
Only it didn't. Too often I would launch out into a program or emphasis that worked great in downtown Memphis or Atlanta but fell flat on its face in Monroe, Baton Rouge, our Coushatta.
I want to read this morning about a model congregation that I believe God wants us to model our church after. A simple church, but an effective church. This was a large congregation, with 12 full-time pastors, in a fairly large town by that day's standard, but what they were doing fits just as well here in Hall Summit, as it will in New York City.
Read with me.
In our passage, we will find 4 principles that guided this church. 4 activities they were devoted to, that caused them to grow not only numerically, but spiritually.
I) THEY WERE DEVOTED TO BIBLICAL TEACHING -
They were committed to the apostle's doctrine. Didache-literally what the apostles taught.
How do we know what the apostles taught, what was the content of their message to the church? The NT is the deposit of their doctrine.
They were a church that studied the Word of God and learned the Word of God.
The Church that expects to make ...
Series: The Acts of the Holy Spirit (13)
Author: Collin Wimberly
Text: Acts 2:42-47
CIT - Luke describes life in the early church just after Pentecost.
Proposition - The church today needs to experience the same dynamic church life that the early church had.
INTRODUCTION:
Early in ministry, I would go to conferences at large, successful churches, to find out what they were doing and why they were doing it. I visited FBC Jacksonville, Fl, Bellview Baptist Church, in Memphis where Adrian Rodgers was pastor, and Northpoint Church in Atlanta Ga, where Andy Stanley, Charles Stanley's son is the pastor. They were all large churches, with beautiful buildings and many staff members. I would try to bring home what they were doing, I wanted to model my ministry after theirs. After all, it worked for them, so it should work for me.
Only it didn't. Too often I would launch out into a program or emphasis that worked great in downtown Memphis or Atlanta but fell flat on its face in Monroe, Baton Rouge, our Coushatta.
I want to read this morning about a model congregation that I believe God wants us to model our church after. A simple church, but an effective church. This was a large congregation, with 12 full-time pastors, in a fairly large town by that day's standard, but what they were doing fits just as well here in Hall Summit, as it will in New York City.
Read with me.
In our passage, we will find 4 principles that guided this church. 4 activities they were devoted to, that caused them to grow not only numerically, but spiritually.
I) THEY WERE DEVOTED TO BIBLICAL TEACHING -
They were committed to the apostle's doctrine. Didache-literally what the apostles taught.
How do we know what the apostles taught, what was the content of their message to the church? The NT is the deposit of their doctrine.
They were a church that studied the Word of God and learned the Word of God.
The Church that expects to make ...
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