We live in a very mobile world. Everyone is in a hurry to get somewhere.

Throughout Scripture, God often taught people the greatest lessons along the journey.

Today, we continue with Scott Pauli, our study through the great journeys

of the Bible. Our prayer is that you will rediscover the adventure of walking with God.

The Lord Jesus Christ is the founder of the church.

I believe that the church started with Christ and his disciples,

that the first New Testament church was made up of a pastor, the Lord Jesus,

and a group of people, a small group of people, 12 to be exact, in its primitive form, that that was the nucleus of the first church.

And that then, of course, that church is empowered on the day of Pentecost by the Holy Spirit.

And the rest is history.

In fact, it's not just history.

It's reality because the church of the Lord Jesus Christ is still on the move today.

It's my belief that the Lord Jesus

always expected his church to be a church on the move. That doesn't mean you can't have a building,

a meeting place, but I believe from the beginning that the Lord Jesus taught us by example that

the church was to be moving forward with the gospel of Jesus Christ.

We've learned already, that's why Jesus came. We've studied the journeys of Jesus.

But let me talk to you today about the early apostles, the first disciples and their movement for

Christ. It really began early on in their tenure with the Lord. In Matthew

10, verse 1, the Bible says, and when he had called into him his 12 disciples, he gave them

power against unclean spirits to cast them out and to heal all manner of sickness and all

manner of disease. Now, the names of the 12 apostles are these. The first, Simon, who's called

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