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Read Acts 2:42-47 What’s Next? “…having favor with all the people.” This passage tells us two really important things about how the early church worked! First- we notice that after describing the way the early church worshipped, practiced community, and served (our...
Read 1 Peter 4:7-11 “To serve one another…” This passage starts to give some practical implications to the strategy of giving freely in service. How do we serve? By using whatever we have to serve someone else. When my kids were little, 1 Peter 4:10 was our family...
Read: Luke 4:16-21 “Today this has been fulfilled.” In the book of Luke, Jesus begins his ministry by reading from the scroll of Isaiah. This reading from Isaiah 61 is in the third part of the book of Isaiah. It’s the part of Isaiah where God is telling Israel of the day when...
Read Acts 5:12-16 Eusebius was a 4th-century church historian. He wrote Historia Ecclesiastica (A History of the Church), which is one of the most complete pictures we have of the church in the first few centuries after Christ. In his writing, Eusebius talks about a long season of war and...
Read Jeremiah 29:4-7 “Seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you.” These verses in Jeremiah are spoken to a people in exile. A people who are far from home, in Babylon, longing to return to the Holy City of Jerusalem. You might think God would tell them to try and escape...
Read Acts 2:42-47 “Added to their number daily.” Acts 2:42-47 gives us the clearest picture we have of what was happening in the early church. WOW! They were meeting together daily. They were sharing everything they had with each other. They were literally selling their possessions...
Read Hebrews 10:23-25 “Don’t give up.” These verses in Hebrews tell us we’ll have to fight for our community. It seems that in the first century, people were already struggling to make it a priority to gather together as the Church on a regular basis. That...
Read 1 Corinthians 12:12-31 “We are one body.” If you ask me, this is basically what Rey says in The Rise of Skywalker when she is facing off with the reincarnation of Emperor Palpatine. In that powerful scene (or cheesy depending on your taste in movies), as Rey comes against this...
Read Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 “Together.” This word inevitably makes me start singing songs from High School Musical. We’re better together. It’s a cliché but in the words of Emily Gilmore from the show Gilmore Girls, “cliches are just true things that people are...
Genesis 1:26-31 “Let us.” In Genesis 1:26, God decides to make humanity. And in deciding to make us, God used the word “us.” This isn’t just God speaking in the “royal we” - it’s an acknowledgment that God, within Godself, is in community. ...
