Preacher: Jeremy Herbert

Text: Acts 18:18-23

Theme: Biblical fellowship

Notes:

* Unity

* Community

* Harmony

* Ministry

* Maturity

 

Community

* Natural outflow of being in union with Christ

* Acts 2:40-42

* Two essential parts:

* Worship–what we say we believe, what we teach

* We spend weekly time in corporate worship

* A church’s weekly corporate worship will reflect it’s individual members’ daily personal worship

* Anemic, unenthusiastic personal worship will produce anemic, unenthusiastic corporate worship

* God commanded corporate worship in both Old and New Testaments

* Both ordinances were given with the explicit context of community–neither are celebrated alone

* By design, corporate worship is designed to be word, prayer, song, and ordinance in community

* Walk–what we prove that we believe by what we practice

* Without people–even messed up people–we don’t have a church

 

Live It Out

* Be honest about where you are at

* Stop making lame excuses