December 29, 2024 · Pastor Matt Stokes
Pastor Matt Stokes
Acts 2:42-47
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What is the value of worship, fellowship, prayer, and beyond just sitting the Sunday morning experience?
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And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers. –Acts 2:42
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And fear came upon every soul: and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles. –Acts 2:43
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And all that believed were together, and had all things common; –Acts 2:44
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and sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need. –Acts 2:45
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And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart, –Acts 2:46
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praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved. –Acts 2:47
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Emphasis of the Early Church:
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Verse
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42: Consistent devotion
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43: Awesome reverence / God's moving
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44: United spirit
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45: Life together
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46: Common vision
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47: People saved
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What was it like to be one of the first followers of the faith?
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Are you willing to suffer loss in order to know Christ more? To what degree?
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“But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,”– Philippians 3:7-8
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What are you willing to give to see greater glory for God in your particular community?
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Do you have a desire to go deeper as a disciple, in regard to unity, community and fellowship?
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Does our love for Christ inspire us to take the love of Christ beyond these walls?
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Does Church exist outside the context of cushy chairs?
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Are we creating a spirit led environment where believers are longing to give in any place there’s a need?
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Do you have a passion to see the saving knowledge of Christ reach the lives of the lost?
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God created us to experience Him in the context of community.
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Believers were not meant to grow in isolation.
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Followers of Christ are committed to fellowshipping with one another.
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There are many believers who feel they have nothing to offer a lost world, but nothing could be further from the truth.
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Discipleship happens in the context of fellowship.
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Get connected to Christ in the context of the Coastal community.
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Embrace the responsibility to experience Christ in the community.
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Don’t live in the shadow of history. Let’s live in God‘s reality for His church today!
