Church

The Book Of Acts Is Disturbing…

Nov 10, 2008

A few thoughts from what God is rocking my world with here lately…

  • The book of Acts is disturbing for those who desire comfort and status quo…God has never embraced either…neither should we.
  • In Acts 1:8 Jesus said THE distinguishing mark of the Holy Spirit would be a desire to take the Gospel to the rest of the world.  Seriously, look at it…when the Holy Spirit falls He said THEN we would be His witnesses.
  • This sort of blows the, “we are just going to be deep people who love Scripture but not people” churches completely out of the water!
  • God has always been comfortable with making people uncomfortable…he stretched the heck out of Peter in Acts 10.
  • The early church was HEAVILY led by the Holy Spirit…they didn’t know what to do without Him!  We don’t either!
  • We are not to be obsessed with those who oppose us…we are to be obsessed with Jesus.  If we are following Him then He will handle those who oppose us.
  • Fighting against a move of God is useless.
  • Acts 12 - a praying church is unstoppable!
  • God wants us to have a heart for the crowds and the individuals in the crowd.
  • God was always raising up leaders to help with the increasing demands of the church.
  • The megachurch is not a “new fad,” in fact, the opposite is true…the first church went from 120 to 3,000 in one day…that would pretty much be a megachurch!
  • Changed lives are the best evidence that Jesus is alive!!!
  • I’ve been asking God to change the way I think…He did this to the Apostles in Acts 8-10…their thinking had to be radically challenged…and because of that the church advanced.  I WANT THIS!

Those are just a few of the thoughts…I may blog about some of them in more detail later.