1. Acts
What do we do now?

3. Get the right attitude
Commitment
continuous

5. Apostles teaching
To know it.
To live it.

7. About 115 AD
Pliny
Trajan

8. the early Christians meet on a fixed day which was Sunday before dawn and sing responsively a hymn to Christ as to a god, and to bind themselves by oath, not to some crime, but not to commit fraud, theft, or adultery, not falsify their trust, nor to refuse to return a trust when called upon to do so.

9. Fellowship

10. Means being involved in each other’s lives

12. Lunch
Communion?

16. The prayers

17. Fear and respect

18. Because of Apostle’s signs and wonders

19. Why not today
Apostles
But Philip and Stephen both perform wonders.

20. Maturity thing.

21. How much they care for each other.

25. They saw themselves as a fulfillment of Judaism
Paul’s missionary strategy
Kept them safe until they were established.

26. Church was both BIG and small

27. Evangelism is an overflow.
NB God adds to the number

28. 1. church is about people- Although church is here for your benefit you are here to benefit others- so here is the question this week- how do others benefit from you being in the church?
2. Church is to help you grow as a Christian by learning and living and loving others

29. Matthew 22:36-40 (NASB)
36 "Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?"
37 And He said to him, " 'YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.'
38 "This is the great and foremost commandment.
39 "The second is like it, 'YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.'
40 "On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets."