Powerpoint for Sermon

2. The Birth of the Church
Acts 2:37-47

3. How much do you love the local church?
Has anything replaced your love for the church?

4. How much do you love the local church?
Has anything replaced your love for the church?
As the church, we are a unified body of
believers, purchased by Christ and baptized
by the Holy Spirit to imitate God and carry
out the mission of the gospel.

5. Acts 1:8
But you will receive power when the
Holy Spirit has come upon you; and
you shall be My witnesses both in
Jerusalem, and in all Judea and
Samaria, and even to the remotest
part of the earth.

6. Acts 2
37 Now when they heard this, they were
pierced to the heart, and said to Peter and
the rest of the apostles, “Brethren, what
shall we do?”
38 Peter said to them, “Repent, and each of
you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ
for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will
receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

7. Acts 2
39 For the promise is for you and your
children and for all who are far off, as
many as the Lord our God will call to
Himself.”

8. Acts 2
40 And with many other words he
solemnly testified and kept on
exhorting them, saying, “Be saved from
this perverse generation!”
41 So then, those who had received his
word were baptized; and that day there
were added about three thousand
souls.

9. Gospel Conversion
1. Repentance of sin.
2. Placing faith in Jesus and receiving
complete forgiveness.
3. Experiencing the indwelling gift of
the Holy Spirit.
4. Being baptized in water as a public
witness of new birth.

10. Acts 2
42 They were continually devoting
themselves to the apostles’ teaching
and to fellowship, to the breaking of
bread and to prayer.
43 Everyone kept feeling a sense of
awe; and many wonders and signs were
taking place through the apostles.

11. Fundamental Practices of the Church
1. Apostles teaching
2. Fellowship
3. Breaking of bread
4. Prayer

12. Fundamental Practices of the Church
1. Apostles teaching (Christ-centered,
biblical proclamation)
2. Fellowship (Sharing life together among
believers within the church)
3. Breaking of bread (Remembering Christ
and keeping the church holy)
4. Prayer (Regular communion with the
Heavenly Father as a body of believers)

13. Hebrews 10:23–25
Let us hold fast the confession of our hope
without wavering, for He who promised is
faithful; and let us consider how to stimulate
one another to love and good deeds, not
forsaking our own assembling together, as is
the habit of some, but encouraging one
another; and all the more as you see the day
drawing near. Hebrews 10:23–25

14. Acts 2
44 And all those who had believed were
together and had all things in common;
45 and they began selling their property
and possessions and were sharing them
with all, as anyone might have need.

15. Acts 2
46 Day by day continuing with one mind in
the temple, and breaking bread from house
to house, they were taking their meals
together with gladness and sincerity of
heart, [47] praising God and having favor
with all the people. And the Lord was adding
to their number day by day those who were
being saved.

16. Let’s be the church
The simple, ordinary church can
accomplish extraordinary things
as witnesses for Christ.