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How to...
The internet is full of how to guides.
Youtube how to suggestions:
How to draw
tie a tie
to basic
solve a rubik’s cube
make slime
cake it
whistle with your fingers
build a house in minecraft
curl your hair with a straightener
draw a unicorn
In your own life you’ll know there’s a difference between been told what to do and how to do it.
Build a house vs this is how to build it, with plans, drawings, and then practical instructions on carry out the work, hammering, sawing, framing and whatever else it is builders do.
Our Convictions
1. Jesus Christ is head of the Church
2. And he has sent us to make disciples
3.
By word, prayer and service
4. Supported by fruitful godly leaders
5. God being our provider, and us stewards of his gifts.
We know from the last 2 weeks that Jesus is in charge.
That he created the world, and sustains the world.
That he died for the church.
And his power and authority rests on the church as we seek to be his witnesses in the world.
He will protect and guard the church as it goes about its mission.
We have nothing to fear with Jesus as our King.
We know that Jesus has given us one job.
To be a disciple making body.
That is we are to grow followers of Jesus, who make other followers of Jesus.
So how should we go about the task of disciple making?
Our third conviction is that in fact Jesus not only calls us to make disciples, but he’s actually given us some hints on how we should go about doing that.
And in fact, one of the best places we see that is in the book of Acts, where Jesus’ disciples actually put into practice the disciple making mandate.
There are of course cultural applications in the way they do it, but we can see some key ideas that drive what they do and likewise should drive us.
Let’s take our first reading from Acts 2:42-47
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Here we get a picture of the disciples firstly being devoted to what?
Acts 2:42
The Apostles teaching - Word
That is they devoted themselves to the word.
The church was committed to learn more about their faith.
We no longer have the apostles, but we do have their teaching which has come down to us in the New Testament.
John Stott says:
A Spirit-filled church is a New Testament church, in the sense that it studies and submits to New Testament instruction.
The Spirit of God leads the people of God to submit to the Word of God.
To fellowship - Service
We’re not talking about cups of tea and pot luck dinners when we’re talking about fellowship here.
Instead, what we see here is the deep commitment of the church to one another.
This fellowship, or deep commitment arises out of their fellowship or unity with God.
When John speaks of fellowship in his letter he says:
This fellowship is that idea you’ve no doubt experienced if you’re a Christian, where you can meet someone for the first time, and when you find out they are a Christian it can and often does lead to a deep connection.
Most clearly seen when you meet a Christian from another culture.
My Cambodian brothers and sisters in Christ and I spent limited time together and live extremely different lives.
Yet we share this deep fellowship.
A common bond that unite us.
Fellowship is also close related to generosity.
I don’t like to give Greek lessons to often as I’m a poor Greek scholar myself.
However it’s interesting to note:
fellowship (koinōnia).
Koinōnia (from koinos, ‘common’)
koinōnia also expresses what we share out together, what we give as well as what we receive.
Koinōnia is the word Paul used for the collection he was organizing among the Greek churches, and koinonikos is the Greek word for ‘generous’
And it is radical generosity that is described in verses Acts 2:44-45.
(See John Stot’s commentary on The Message of Acts for a discussion about whether we should sell everything and live together as Christians in communes).
This radical generosity, I think is a lived example of the kind of acts of service we’re called to as Christians who make disciples.
And it’s not just to other Christians, in fact these acts of service are I think the early church applying the great commandment of Jesus to “love your neighbour”.
We are called to generous acts of service to our neighbours.
We do that first to each other in the church, and then our love overflows into the wider community as our neighbours see our love in action and experience our love.
What does it look like for you to service your brother or sister in our church family?
What does it look like for you to serve your neighbour in the wider community?
Next door, at work, in your local club?
Breaking of bread and Prayer - Prayer
We are called to make disciples as a worshipping church.
Worship in the temple courts and in their homes.
Acts 2:46.
There was a larger and smaller aspect to their worship.
Their worship involved expressing their fellowship through the sharing of the lords supper, but also no doubt sharing a larger meal too.
Above all, they were constantly at prayer.
And God was constantly at work.
We need to be a praying people.
How can you put prayer on the map in both your life and as a memebr of this church?
Two best books on prayer:
A Praying Life - Paul Miller
Prayer - Tim Keller
Note: These actions served the church as it witnessed to the world.
To the disciple making cause!
Word, prayer and service.
It was how they fueled themselves for the disciple making task.
The fruit of these core tasks was disciple making disciples!
We see this “how to” pattern of.
word, prayer and service again in our second reading from Acts 6.
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They are having issues in the fellowship/service deparment.
People are being overlooked in the distribution of food (v1).
This is a big problem.
And the really big problem is that it has the potential to distract the apostles from the task of what?
Verses 2 and 4.
So the church needs to raise up and train new leaders in order to keep word, prayer and service… the life blood of disciple making on the go.
And that’s what it does.
They choose seven men (v3) who get about the job of serving the church.
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