Reader: Mel Truong

Preacher: Jonathan Smith

Recalling the big picture message from the first week, we are ordinary people empowered by the Holy Spirit to witness to the Lord Jesus to the ends of the earth.

In today's message from Acts 2:42-47, we see how the early church lived. The people followed the teaching of the apostles, fellowshipped together, broke bread and prayed.

The early church did not have the New Testament like we do today, so the teaching focussed on the Old Testament and how the scriptures pointed to Jesus. Fellowship, in the context of the early church, is a word we don't fully understand. It is MUCH more than "hangin gout" together; instead it is sacrificially giving ourselves for others. The Breaking of Bread may have meant communion, or it may have meant sharing meals together - possibly it was both. Prayer was something the early church did multiple times per day - coming from a Jewish background these people were used to praying at fixed times of the day and spontaneously. We need to think of our prayer times as unstructured. We need to schedule prayer into our daily Christian life.