Monday, May 5, 2008

What's Next?

This Sunday, we will return to the book of Acts beginning in chapter 17. Paul and his associates are continuing on their missionary journey as they reach the city limits of Thessalonica. Paul had a habit of going to influential cities and Thessalonica was no different. It was a free city, with no Roman Garrison and a population of about 200,000. This was very large in those days. Paul would have a period of about three weeks to plant a church before he would be run out of town. We hear that large crowds believed Paul as he reasoned with them, proved to them that Christ was the Messiah and challenged them to believe in the resurrection.

The main reason I started to preach from Acts was so that our church could take a look at what it means to be missional. How do we reach our culture the way the early Christian church reached their culture. This week we will see that God's Word is sufficient for church growth. I am looking forward to another week with God's people on His Day.

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