1. The Unhindered Harvest
Acts:
The Unhindered Harvest

2. Acts 2:41-47 So then, those who had received his word were baptized; and that day there were added about three thousand souls.

3. They were continually devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.

4. Everyone kept feeling a sense of awe; and many wonders and signs were taking place through the apostles. And all those who had believed were together and had all things in common;

5. and they began selling their property and possessions and were sharing them with all, as anyone might have need.

6. 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,

7. praising God and having favor with all the people
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.

8. A Summary
An atlas of God’s work
“People” not “persons”
Demonstration
Acts…the new Exodus

9. “Luke is giving a description of the ministry…to one another in a variety of contexts, not simply telling us what happened when they gathered for what we might call ‘church.’” (Peterson, pg. 160)

10. Signs of Life
Critical to see
They received
They were baptized
They were added

11. Signs of Wellness Unending sequence They were devoted Formally
Spontaneously
The teaching
The fellowship

12. They were acutely aware They were together
Signs of Wellness
They were acutely aware
They were together
More than attendance
Actively attentive
Daily living

13. Signs of Wellness God caused growth The “people” grew
The “persons” were faithful
By the hand of God

14. Reaping the Harvest It’s all about devotion Isolation is never healthy
We live, God grows
Reaping the Harvest