Pray the Word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net.

Acts chapter 2, verse 42, and they devoted themselves to the Apostles' teaching and the fellowship,

to the breaking of bread, and the prayers.

This is a simple summary of what the earliest church,

so the gospel's just been preached in Acts chapter 2 at Pentecost,

and thousands of people have just come to Christ and been baptized.

And so for 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 and

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, 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 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 devoted to the word?

Just the pure teaching of the word, not entertainment value in a talk or this or that. Just we want

the word. We want to be taught the word of

god the authoritative word of god we're devoted to it and and the fellowship devoted to community

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