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Read Acts 2:42
What did the Church look like in the beginning?
What were the core values?
What was important?
Who was the church?
What does that mean for us today at East Hill Foursquare Church?
Church 2.42 is based upon Acts 2:42
They devoted themselves
to the apostles' teaching
and to the fellowship,
to the breaking of bread
and to prayer.
Our Core Values in Church 2.42
Apostles' Teaching---------------------------------God’s Word - Good News
Fellowship-------------------------------------------Relationship - Friendship
Breaking of Bread----------------------------------Eating together - Food
Prayer------------------------------------------------Communication with God
The Church loved God
The Church loved each other
The Church took that love into their communities
"And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved." Acts 2:47b
Look at the core values:
God’s Word - The Good News
"It is a sin to bore a kid with the Gospel" (Good News)
Jim Rayburn, Young Life Founder
"You must earn the right to be heard"
Jim Rayburn
"Preach the word;
be prepared in season and out of season,
correct, admonish, and encourage
with great patience and instruction."
2 Timothy 4:2
"Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly,
as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom,
as you sing songs with gratitude in your hearts to God. "
Colossians 3:16
"It is written: man does not live on bread alone,
but on every word that comes from the mouth of God."
Matthew 4:4
"The grass withers and the flowers fall because
The breath of God blows on them
Surely the people are grass.
The grass withers and the flowers fall
But the WORD of God stands forever."
Isaiah 40:7-7
Relationship -Friendship
Two greatest commandments-- Love God-Love People
Friendship is vertical and horizontal
"We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out they will come in."
Jess Moody
1 Corinthians Chapter13
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self‑seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
Eating Together - Food
"Christmas, Easter, New Years Day, Thanksgiving, Weddings,
Fourth of July, Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, Birthdays, etc...
What do all the festivities have in common? FOOD!
Holidays and food have a close relationship-food's important!"
Dan Russell
"I do not want to send them away hungry"
Jesus feeds four thousand
"Where shall we buy bread for these people to eat?"
Jesus feeds the five thousand
"Take and eat"
Jesus at the Last Supper
"Do this (Communion) in remembrance of me"
Jesus
When He was at the table with them
He took bread gave thanks, broke it,
and began to give it to them.
Then there eyes were opened and He disappeared from them@
Jesus on the road to Emmaus
"Do you have anything here to eat?"
Jesus appeared to the disciples
"Come and have breakfast”
Jesus appears after the resurrection
"Eating is deeply spiritual"
Dan Russell
Communicating with God - Prayer
"The glory of God is a living man; and the life of man consists in beholding God."
Saint Irenaeus, Against Heresies
"We read in the Gospels concerning Jesus that as he was praying, the fashion of his countenance was altered. Worship evidently did something for Jesus."
Albert W. Palmer
"Worship can only be boring if you are boring. Worship is active. You are the actor and God is your audience.
When worship is done you should ask, AHow did I do Lord?@
Dan Russell
O come, let us worship and bow down;
Let us kneel before the Lord our maker
Psalm 95:6
Give unto the Lord the glory due his name;
worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.
Psalm 29:2
I asked an elderly woman once, AIf I go to church and the preacher says nothing worth hearing, is it any use for me to go?" "Of course not," she replied curtly. But a young man overhearing our conversation intruded, "I don't see why a man, when he goes to church to worship God, would let a preacher butt in on his worship!"
-Senior Teacher
Leadership Requirements to lead in Church 2.42
Love God-Love People
Daily Devotion with Jesus
Listen to the Holy Spirit
Be Real, Open, and Vulnerable
