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June 26th 2022
Series: The Book of Acts
Sermon Title: Two Keys of True Belief
Topic: Journey through the book of Acts.
Key Passages: Acts 4: 32 - 37
Sermon Blurb: Today we will look at a passage of Scripture that shows two keys of TRUE belief in Jesus.
This message will help you evaluate how close you are really walking with Jesus.
Holy Spirit truth nugget:
Sermon:
BEFORE worship…..
Church Camping Trip Recap & Pics
Teen Mission Trip Recap & Pics
Well, hello everyone!
Church-wide speech…
Our staff has been looking forward to this day for a while!
Last year we decided to do a “One Family” celebration where we brought our Grace Campus and Ebenezer Campus church families all together and celebrated under one tent.
And it was an AMAZING event!
We were blown away when over 1,000 people attended that Sunday One Family event because for our church back then that was not normal and a LOT of people!
To keep it in perspective before that even only 3 times that year we got to 1,000 people.
Well…fast forward to the rest of 2021 and we just exploded with growth and normal became 1000+
And so as we thought about this year and this event….we said let’s dream big!
Let’s plan and prepare for double last year.
So Pastor Bob worked out us being here today at the Field House at Hope College….which
makes me look around and say……
WOW….God is SOO GOOD!
WOW….God can do more than we could ever think as or imagine!
Can we take a second and just praise God!!!!!
PAUSE
If this is your first time coming to a Family Church service or event….
We are SO glad you are here!
I hope you enjoyed a great meal on us already.
I hope you enjoyed some fun games already!
I hope you met some new friends already!
We want to take some time today to not only have fun.
Not only share a meal.
Not only make new friends.
But to more importantly worship Jesus our Lord and Savior.
So, Pastor Matt and the team is going to lead us in worship and then I will come back up and share a brief message today.
WORSHIP SET
Thank you worship team!
Now I know some of you are already dreaming about second lunch.
I know some of you kids REALLY want to get back to the bounce houses and mechanical bull.
So I promise….I won’t preach a long message.
PAUSE
Now if you are new or newer to Family Church let me explain how we approach messages.
We are a church that really believes in the word of God, the Bible.
What we do as a church, week in and week out, is we bring our Bibles to church.
We open our Bibles.
We read our Bibles.
We study our Bibles.
And we ask God….how can we apply this to our lives today.
And so we will simply do that today.
PAUSE
We are in the book of Acts as a church so if you brought you Bible today open it up Acts chapter 4.
If you do not have your Bible with you I would encourage you to download our FamilyChurch.App.
There you can find the sermon notes, a free Bible and so much more.
PAUSE
Today, we pick back up where we left off in the Book of Acts.
If you are new, or newer, to Family Church we are on a journey walking through the book of Acts…
Let me share a few things to catch you up if you are new or newer today.
The book of Acts is all about the early church that was born right after Jesus’ resurrection and his return back to heaven.
Before where we pick up in the Bible today.
Two of the church leaders, Peter and John were preaching and 2,000 people heard their message and choose to change their lives and follow Jesus.
The leaders of the Jewish faith did NOT like that all these Jewish people were becoming followers of Jesus.
So, they had Peter and John arrested.
They tried to discredit Peter and John but could not.
They told Peter and John to stop talking about Jesus and they said NOPE not going to happen.
And then they release them.
Then we wrapped things up last week with Peter and John going back to their friends SUPER excited that they were being persecuted for their faith AND told everyone…..
KEEP speaking about Jesus boldly!
Don’t worry about being arrested!
Don’t worry about being persecuted!
KEEP going!!!
And we know God was directing that sentiment because in verse 31 it says then God filled them ALL with His Spirit.
PAUSE
Family Church there are times when we need to stand up for what is right and speak the truth even when our culture vilifies us.
And we need to seek God’s will when that is.
But we cannot be afraid to speak the truth.
But in the midst of speaking truth, we CAN NOT forget the goal of speaking truth…..
It is NOT to condemn people!
It is NOT to make people think our way!
It is NOT to get people to politically agree with us!
It IS to get people to come to Jesus.
We cannot get so wrapped up in our side of the fight that we FIGHT instead of using the issue to try to lead people to Jesus….like
we see them doing in the Bible….
PAUSE
Let’s read this passage and then I will circle back and break it down and show you how it applies to our lives today.
So, let’s pick up in verse 32….
32 All the believers were one in heart and mind.
No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared everything they had.
33 With great power the apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus.
And God’s grace was so powerfully at work in them all
34 that there were no needy persons among them.
For from time to time those who owned land or houses sold them, brought the money from the sales 35 and put it at the apostles’ feet, and it was distributed to anyone who had need.
36 Joseph, a Levite from Cyprus, whom the apostles called Barnabas (which means “son of encouragement”), 37 sold a field he owned and brought the money and put it at the apostles’ feet.
You can stop reading there for today.
These verses shake up a lot of people and confuse people.
But I love these verses…because this passage describes our church and I will explain why as we walk through it.
PAUSE
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