Kicking off our ‘Devoted’ series from Acts, we consider what it means to be

devoted to the apostles' teaching.

At Pentecost, 3000 were cut to the heart by the message of the gospel. But

their faith did not remain solely in the realm of the emotional. They did

not disdain their intellect, but devoted themselves to the

apostles’ teaching.

We do the same - neither prioritizing our emotions nor our

minds. Anti-intellectualism is in fact incompatible with the fullness of

the Spirit, for the simple fact that the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of

Truth. So, we seek out Godly, intelligent teaching and we submit to being

teachable.

But we don’t allow devotion to the apostle’s teaching to be an end in

itself. Rather it is the means by which the Spirit flows through us to

bring the Kingdom of God to our world.

By Ed Flint