Faith Baptist Church

The Spirit moving in the apostles spread the teaching that couldn't be stopped.

 

"And every day, in the Temple and from house to house, they continued to teach and preach this message: 'Jesus is the Messiah.'" Acts 5:42 NLT

 

The story of the lame man outside the gate of the temple points to the One who IS the Gate.

"So God’s message continued to spread. The number of believers greatly increased in Jerusalem, and many of the Jewish priests were converted, too." Acts 6:7 NLT

This is our last week digging deep into the meaning of a prayer written for pastors, and we talk about some answered prayers that we have experienced.

Today we study the early Christ followers immediately after they had been visited by and filled with the Holy Spirit. We examine what they were devoted to in their time, relationships, and resources, that caused their growth.

Acts 2:43-47

Continuing through our prayer for pastors we take a slight detour through the idea of lament, another type of prayer that many of us aren't familiar with.

How can we be clear we are going God's direction with His Spirit leading?

Today we discuss Acts 2. 

This week, as we dig into the emphasized words of our prayer for pastors, we uncover a substantial amount of what the Spirit can do for us that we cannot do for ourselves.

Today we examine questions and objections to the command to "Go".

 

Matthew 28

16 Then the eleven disciples left for Galilee, going to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. 17 When they saw him, they worshiped him—but some of them doubted!

18 Jesus came and told his disciples, “I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth. 19 Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations,[b] baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. 20 Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you. And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”

This week in our study of prayer we have a model of how to pray for your pastor or other leadership. As we go through our prayer we are finding that pastors are quite complex based on what we need to be praying over them.

Our series has bridged from Luke to the book Acts. This week, we look at Acts 1:1, and the "cast" of the Kingdom story going forward.

"In my first book I told you, Theophilus, about everything Jesus began to do and teach until the day he was taken up to heaven after giving his chosen apostles further instructions through the Holy Spirit." Acts 1:1 NLT