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The Living Waters Podcast

Ep. 365 - Important Highlights From Church History

The Living Waters Podcast

Living Waters

Evangelism, Apologetics, Jesus, Spirituality, Religion, Christianity, Gospel, Creation, Religion & Spirituality, Salvation, Prolife, Faith, Witnessing, Theology

4.93K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Looking back at church history may not sound exciting to some, but it’s vital to understanding how God has worked through time. Ray, E.Z., Mark, and Oscar reflect on the church as the story of believers, emphasizing that history reveals God’s ongoing movement beyond the book of Acts. Though historians tell it in an exciting way, church history shows the evidence of faith lived out in different eras. Biographies of faithful men and women remind Christians of how the Lord worked through ordinar...

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0:00.0

Do you see almost a forgetfulness of the Spirit in the Church today, like a lack of dependence on the Spirit?

0:05.0

Oh, absolutely. I think we've forgotten the Book of Acts as the blueprint for the church.

0:10.7

It tells us exactly. It's not received by a lot of stuff we're talking about. It's just got to be received by faith.

0:16.7

We've got it written in God's word, God breed. This is what the early church did.

0:22.6

And I've often said when the Holy Spirit was given, the disciples did not stay in the upper room and carpeted it out and put a little sign outside saying tonight, seven o'clock all welcome.

0:31.6

They went open air.

0:32.9

They began to preach.

0:34.1

And that was their mission.

0:36.4

And they said, we cannot but speak

0:37.9

that which was seen and heard and in jeopardy their lives. They stayed with that agenda to preach

0:42.9

the gospel. And when they got kind of lazy, it took Saul of Tarsus to create havoc within the

0:49.0

church. Therefore, they were spread everywhere preaching the word. And that's what the modern church

0:54.0

needs to go back to the book of Acts. So many people are raising their hands and worshipped God, failing to reach out their hands and evangelism for God. And that becomes nothing but an empty hypocrisy, drawing near to God with our lips, but our hearts being far from them. So I'd love the church to get back to the blueprint of the Book of Acts so we would have the same power that they had in the Book of Acts.

1:13.1

Wow.

1:17.8

Welcome to Quiz your co-hosts.

1:22.6

Quiz your co-host.

1:26.4

Friends.

1:27.2

And I'm going to quiz you too, friends.

1:29.2

All right, guys.

1:30.2

So I want to see if you guys...

1:32.5

Oh, I'm going to turn my computer

1:33.6

because Oscar's going to look.

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