Reading: Acts 2:42-47

Series: Unrestricted Church: What does it mean to be church as we emerge from lockdown?

Title: Why not just have online services?

Main Point: Devote yourselves to God’s word, to fellowship with one another, breaking bread and prayer.

1. Why not just have online services?

• COVID has changed physical meetings in the workplace
• Has COVID changed physical meetings church services

2. God’s message to us today?

• Devote yourselves to God’s word, fellowship with one another, and to the breaking of bread and prayer

3. Context (Acts 2)

• Pentecost morning 120 disciples (Acts 1:15) and 12 apostles
• Spirit’s empowerment at Pentecost
• 3,000 new believers in response to Peter’s sermon (Acts 4:41)
  • Our passage is a small window into the life of these first Christians

4. 3 Marks of the Christian disciple/church (Acts 2:42-47)
   • Devoted themselves to the apostles teaching = the word
   • Devoted themselves to fellowship with one another
   • Devoted themselves to the breaking of bread and prayer

• Implications for Holy Communion

…and the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved (Acts 2:47)

So, my brothers and sisters, devote yourselves to God’s word, fellowship with one another, and to the breaking of bread and prayer