Are you a service-oriented person? There are two types: those who live to serve and the others who live to be served. The world is filled with both—so are churches. What about you?

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If you are a believer, you will face trials like alienation, slander, humiliation and sorrow—things that none of us looks forward to. But they are a part of the life of any believer—one who is actively living for God in an increasingly hostile society. Why does that happen? Because when we are faithful to God’s ways, we make unrepentant sinners uncomfortable.

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The punishment of Ananias and Sapphira from the book of Acts seems severe. They were struck dead by God for a seemingly trivial offense. Seems like a harsh punishment. But this story teaches us a very important lesson about God.

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Wouldn’t you like to go back in time, and sit with the early believers as they met for worship? Wouldn’t you love to see how they lived together as a community of faith, sharing the good news of Jesus? We don’t have a time machine, but in Acts chapter 4 we do have a portrait of the worship and work of the early church.

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It doesn’t happen every day for us, but it started happening right away for the early apostles. God tells you to do something, and the state says you can’t. What do you do? What are your options? What are the issues?

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There is only one man who never walked in the counsel of the wicked or stood in the way of sinners, and that person was the God-man, Jesus Christ. But was Jesus the man the psalmist describes in Psalm One? Join Dr. James Boice next time on The Bible Study Hour as he takes a deeper look at the man described in one of the Bible’s most beloved psalms

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On one side are gangs of priests, Sadducees, rulers, and elders. They’re backed by the authority of their office, and they wield the power of intimidation and imprisonment. On the other side are Peter and John. They’re backed by the authority of God’s word, and they wield the power of the Holy Spirit.

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A man who can’t walk sits outside the temple begging for money. Most people look away. A few give him a coin. But today, two men stop and talk. They’re flat broke themselves, but they do give him something. And the man who can’t walk stands up, walks around, starts jumping, and runs into the temple praising God.

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Every church has its distinctive. Each congregation is different. But all biblical churches share the same essentials. What are they? What activities are at the heart of every true church in every time and place? Next time on The Bible Study Hour, Dr. James Boice looks at the early church and finds the believers doing four things that define what it really means to live as Christ’s disciples.

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It’s biblical. It’s Christ-centered. It’s fearless. It’s persuasive. It’s Peter’s first sermon, and it’s a winner. In fact, God uses it to win 3000 new disciples, 3000 new sons and daughters, 3000 new members of the body of Christ. Next time on The Bible Study Hour, Dr. James Boice talks about Peter’s Pentecost sermon as a model for how all of us can testify to what we know about Jesus.

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