Asleep vs. awake, Acts 20:7-12

Situate ourselves within the 7 practices

handles for you to get to the place where you can see the need for the practices

if you are not practicing something, how can you get better

If you want to get better at juggling, but you don’t every practice, how can you get better.

Insert the Scripture here

Need a illustration to drive this sermon - maybe it is the story of the person falling out the window

who do I describe the reality of being awake and hearing, vs. passively participating

it is easy to move to the window - it warm, it is overwhelming, etc.

it is easy to fall out -

When you are fall out and you get disconnected

Stay awake - stay alert - 1 Corinthians 16:13

Gathering together - why is important?

It helps us to be aware of others

Christianity is not a solo sport

what do we gather for

What make up our gatherings here:

worship through song

preaching

prayers

time before and after to connect with others

Why is so important:

knowing what you need to know leads to wisdom

It is saying no the business of life and yes to connecting with God

It is a communal thing

It helps us learn to prayer

It helps strengthen us

Notes and ideas

it was the reality of first day of the week.

food

teaching

first day of the week (Sunday)

important to be together (there is a lot to say) - the person up front wants to talk on and on

Baker New Testament Commentary: Acts 2. At Troas (20:7–12)

Practical Considerations in 20:7–12

Throughout the world people today observe a seven-day week. But in Paul’s day only the Jews, God-fearers, and Christians kept a calendar in which the week had seven days. They did so in harmony with the creation account in the first two chapters of Genesis and the command in the Decalogue to keep the Sabbath after laboring six days (Exod. 20:8–11; Deut. 5:12–15). Moreover, the Greeks and the Romans did not have days of rest. In fact, the Roman author Seneca scoffed at the Jews and derided them for wasting time by resting one day out of every seven. When Paul preached the gospel to exclusively Gentile audiences (for example, in Lystra and in Athens), he began by teaching them the doctrine of creation. He had to teach them that God created heaven and earth in six days and rested on the seventh day.

The Jews designated five days of the week by ordinal numbers (the first day, the second, the third, the fourth, the fifth). These were followed by the day of preparation (Friday) and the Sabbath (Saturday). The early Christians adopted this nomenclature. But by the end of the first century, they called the first day of the week the Lord’s Day to commemorate that Jesus rose from the grave on that day (Rev. 1:10; the first-century document Didache 14.1). Interestingly, the modern Greek calendar lists the days of the week as Lord’s Day, second, third, fourth, fifth, day of preparation, and Sabbath. In Portuguese the days are Domingo (Sunday), second day (Monday), third (Tuesday), fourth (Wednesday), fifth (Thursday), sixth (Friday), and Sabado (Saturday).

Roman dates were counted inclusively forward to the next one of three principal days within each month:[36]

Kalends (Kalendae or Kal.), the 1st day of each month[36]

Nones (Nonae or Non.), the 7th day of full months[37] and 5th day of hollow ones,[36] 8 days—"nine" by Roman reckoning—before the Ides in every month

Ides (Idus, variously Eid. or Id.), the 15th day of full months[37] and the 13th day of hollow ones,[36] a day less than the middle of each month

worship through song

preaching

prayers

time before and after to

worship through song

preaching

prayers

time before and after to