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Acts chapter 2, verse 42, and they devoted themselves to the Apostles teaching and the fellowship to the breaking of bread and the prayers.

And this is a simple summary of what the earliest church so the gospel's just been preached and

at ch chaper two at Pentecosts and thousands of people have just come to Christ and

been baptized and so from the very beginning what are they

devoting themselves to they're devoting themselves to the apostles teaching so

the teaching of God's word through these apostles who represented Christ in his authority

that what we see in the page of the New Testament that is being taught they devoted

themselves to that teaching they devoted themselves to the

fellowship this community with one another I mean they these were people who were

separate in a sense from one another up until this point now they're united together in Christ

Reconciled to God and they're devoted to community with one another to the breaking of bread

likely a reference to the Lord's Supper and

this this memorial meal that Christ had given so that from the very beginning his people would always

look back and remember his body and his blood and feast on the mercy and grace that

are found at the cross. They devoted themselves of that and the prayers.

They were devoted to praying to seeking God together.

And so I read that and I just think that's such a simple picture. So in my life and your life in our churches today, like are we devoted to these things? Are we to the word just the pure teaching of the word not

Entertainment value in a talk or that just we want the word we want to be taught the word of God, the authoritative word of God,

were devoted to it and the fellowship devoted to community

with other followers of Christ and loving and caring and serving one another and

encouraging one another and building each other up.

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