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Keeping the Main Thing the Main Thing
Progress
A good friend of mine says, “I’m all for progress so long as nothing changes.”
Progress, by definition, is change.
Think about the last 120 years, last century
The Main thing: Travel
Getting people from point A to point B
Cars
Airplanes
Trains
Stage coaches, steam engines, hyperloop
Maybe someday we’ll experience transporters.
“Beam me up Scotty”
The Main Thing: Communication
Letting your mom know you got home safely.
Sharing information
Pony Express, mail
Telegraphs
Crank telephones to cell phones
1 line connected everyone in town.
Each family had their number of rings.
Now 8 year olds have their own phone number.
What exactly is the main thing about a smart phone?
Texting, twitter, maps, FB, Internet?
Where do making phone calls rank?
Computers
One of the inventing engineers supposedly asked the very serious question, “Who in the world would want one of these things in their house?”
How many do you have in your house?
You know you have a computer in your car, too.
You know there’s more technology in your smart phone than there was in the lunar module that put men on the moon.
The Main Thing: News & Information
Reality, locally, nationally and internationally.
Fire updates, weather, community announcements to Washington DC to the Middle East.
3 networks, nightly news
Chet Huntley and David Brinkley
60-minutes
Harry Reasoner in the opening scene smoking
Cable news, fake news
The main thing is always the main thing.
Progress is changing the style of how it happens.
Church (What’s changed?)
Most would say this is progress.
King James to how many different versions and translations?
Elevated pulpits so ppl could hear to church in the round to digital sound boards and sound systems.
Pipe-organs, pianos, rock bands
Neighborhood churches to multi-sites
Chicago there’s a Catholic church every 2 miles
1 mile was considered appropriate walking distance.
Irish-Catholic, Polish-catholic, Roman Catholic; all different neighborhoods
Most have closed
Cars, declining attendance, lack of priests.
Progress is all about style.
Being relevant to the culture where the church exists.
The fundamentals are still the fundamentals.
What has changed is how they are taught and practiced.
Congregational music.
Hymns to contemporary songs.
Hymns were written as educational tools to teach the bible and doctrine to the ppl, many who couldn’t read.
How did preachers get their messages out?
Taught songs about them.
We’ve gone thru radio, tv, tapes, cds, and now internet podcasts.
You can listen to practically every preacher in the country.
It’s all over the internet.
New songs are no longer intended to teach.
They are intended to help us pray.
They are meditations.
Much like the chants of ancient monks.
Good, good Father.
I know you know that, but it’s good to meditate on it from time to time.
No matter how much progress we make and no matter what else changes, we have to maintain the main things as the main things.
Church is still a relatively new concept.
Still very Jewish, but changing.
Acts is a book about the beginning of the church and its early progress.
Even then, as things progressed, the main things stayed the main things
Some of them were
The main things
Discipleship
Jesus said make disciples
Reach out, build relationships w/ ppl who don’t know Jesus and introduce them.
And, those who do know Jesus, encourage them to grow closer.
Spiritual growth, maturity.
The Message
The Word of God
The entire bible
The Name of Jesus
Who He is, all that He is.
Not just a miracle worker, but Messiah, Master, King, Lord
Jesus is the reason we do this and the Bible is His story.
Meet Needs
Serve each other using the resources God has provided us.
Spiritual gifts, abilities, time, money
Paying special attention to widows, orphans, and the poor.
Sacrificial service, we give and we receive.
We’re studying Acts.
Acts, as the progress of the church, can be divided into 3 sections.
Progress in Acts
The theme verse is
So, the book is organized around this outline
The church in Jerusalem (ch.
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The church in Judea & Samaria (ch.
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