The earliest believers provided us with a model for how “Church” should be done, and it wasn’t based on rules or doctrines, but on a genuine faith… Read More »The Power of Community and Sharing (Redefining Church Concept 5)
Acts 2:42-47 tells the story of how those who became followers of Jesus after Peter’s first preach on the Day of Pentecost formed a community… Read More »Concept #8: Praise God (Redefining Church)
The earliest believers modelled a way of being church (as opposed to ‘doing’ church) that is, in many ways, far removed from our twenty-first century… Read More »Concept # 7: With Glad and Sincere Hearts (Redefining Church)
For the early church, faith was not something reserved for Sunday morning services and a home group one night a week – it was at… Read More »Concept #6: All-Encompassing Faith (Redefining Church)
The fourth concept in the model of church that is described in Acts 2 is togetherness. The unity that the early believers built the church… Read More »Concept #4: Togetherness (Redefining Church)
In this series focusing on the model of church demonstrated by the earliest group of Christians, based on Acts 2:42-47, we come to the third… Read More »Concept #3: Devotion to Breaking of Bread and Prayer (Redefining Church)
At the end of Acts 2, we see a formula for the way that the Early Church operated – eight principles that underpinned a community… Read More »Concept #2: Devoted to Fellowship (Redefining Church)
Following Peter’s first preach on the Day of Pentecost, the fellowship of believers in Jesus Christ, which would come to be called “the early church”… Read More »Concept #1: Devotion to the Teaching of the Gospel of Jesus Christ (Redefining Church)
Should we be redefining church and what it means in our society today? What can the earliest believers teach us about what it REALLY means to… Read More »Redefining “Church” – Introduction