I Didn't Know Church Could Be This Way (8/16/20)

Church All Out

I Didn't Know Church Could Be This Way!   

Acts 2 

“…upon this rock I will build my church, and all the powers of hell will not conquer it.”
Matthew 16:18b

When Jesus Builds His Church …

1. His Church is: Spiritually Alive

• Wind/Fire – symbolizes God
• Acts 2:4 - “And everyone present was filled with the Holy Spirit and began speaking in other languages, as the Holy Spirit gave them this ability.”

2. His Church is: Biblically Serious

• Jeremiah 17:9 : “The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is?”
•  See Acts 2:16-18, 25-28
• Hebrews 4:12: “For the word of God is alive and powerful. It is sharper than the sharpest two-edged sword, cutting between soul and spirit, between joint and marrow. It exposes our innermost thoughts and desires.”
•  Acts 2:37: “Peter’s words pierced their hearts, and they said to him and to the other apostles, ‘Brothers, what should we do?’”

3. His Church is: Community Blessing

• See Acts 2:41-47
• Acts 4:34: “There were no needy people among them…”

Final thought: Be all in, so we can Go all out!