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A Special Kind of Crazy
A story about Jack… and John and Jerry, oh and Jim
John owns a paint store, Jerry is his salesman.
They need a Point of Sale solution to sell their paint.
They decide to create software, Point of Sale software to sell their product, so they hire Jack to make it.
They like it so much they decide to close the paint shop and just start selling the software!
They met Jim and he was interested in investing.
Crazy!
Absolutely nuts!
What do paint store salesmen know about selling software?
They made every mistake.
50% of business fail within the first five years.
A special kind of crazy.
Did everything go smoothly?
No.
One of them is in jail for life now (it turns out).
That’s a fun story.
Kind of foolish, really.
But 22 years later, they are still going strong.
A Picture of the Early Church
The Holy Spirit has filled those 120 followers of Christ.
Peter has preached the first evangelical sermon and 3000 came to ask “how can we be saved?”
and repented and were baptized on that day.
More came flooding in in the days that followed.
What did they do next?
How did they know to do it?
What did they know about managing an endeavour on this kind of scale, 3000+ people!
It’s a mega church, imagine the mechanics of organizing those fellowship meals!
What did this early church look like?
They had no plan.
(They took action before they planned).
No bylaws.
No organization.
No long term sustaining.
This is ignorance on fire.
This is a special kind of crazy.
But from the very beginning they are doing certain things together that are recognizably “church”.
We recognize what they are doing… because it is very familiar.
Six Dimensions of Vision
Holy Living
Devoted.
Continually devoting themselves… (to teaching and fellowship).
This is “holiness” language.
Devoting themselves.
And they are devoting themselves to something.
There is practical expression of their devotion, of their holy living.
They are devoting themselves to these things that follow: teaching, fellowship, breaking of break and prayer.
Edification
Teaching.
Not a complicated word: making it so someone knows stuff.
We use this word: edification.
The instruction or improvement of a person morally or intellectually.
Teaching.
But, you might say, we don’t have the teaching of the apostles!
Yes we do… they wrote down their teaching.
Matthew (apostle), Mark (probably the testimony of Peter, apostle), John (apostle), Luke (gathering the teachings of apostles).
1,2,3 Peter, 1,2 John, Jude, the writings of Paul, an apostle called by the risen Christ.
Fellowship
Now here is a word of power.
Sharing, participation, contribution.
Eating together is part of it, but bringing everything they have.
Holding everything in common, (same root as fellowship)
Work of the Holy Spirit in putting them in a family - family intimacy, all in it together.
Committed to one another.
And everything I have is available as part of that process.
Not a nascent communism.
As need arose people gave.
The apostles didn’t seize assets.
As God led people would sell their property or donate their goods and services.
Isn’t something you can do alone.
Worship
The breaking of bread.
Just eating together, but there is a definite article here which may imply they are taking communion, or incorporating it into their regular meals together.
And praying together.
They were doing all this together.
Praying for one another, praying to God, just spending time in his presence.
Talking to Jesus.
Letting this new indwelling Holy Spirit intercede with God on their behalf.
Learning all of this, for this first time.
Figuring it out!
I lumped these two under worship, but of course all of the things they are doing are wrapped up in worship.
Worship is declaring with our time and attention that God is worthy.
Awe came upon every soul.
Were they afraid at the task they were taking on?
That is literally what this word means.
“Fear”.
Fear, awe, at what was being done among them.
What was happening with them.
The challenge before them was huge… but they could see it taking shape.
A special kind of crazy.
And to encourage them, many wonders and signs were being done through the apostles.
Did signs and wonders cease with the apostles?
No. God still fills us with wonder at his answered prayers.
Sometimes miraculous in a way that we see and often expressed through his creation and (so often) through his people.
But, in a special way through the apostles, signs and wonders were being done.
Do most of the church do signs and wonders?
It isn’t just the apostles who do so in Acts… but it is only a few others that are called out (Stephen, Paul, etc…)
We see their fellowship made real.
Now is this realistic?
Is this ripe and ready for abuse?
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