Welcome to Further In, a podcast where Pastor Ben and members of our team take a deeper look at Sunday's message at Passion City Church, D.C., and consider how to apply the truths of God's word to our lives today.

Acts 2. Great message, Pastor Ben.

Thank you.

Talking about the characteristics of the early church.

Can I do my best at summer?

Let me see if I got the points.

Let me see if I can take a shot.

Let me see if my notes were sufficient.

Let me see if my notes were sufficient.

The characteristics of a spirit-filled church, the early church is the example, devoted to learning,

devoted to loving, devoted to worshiping, and devoted to witnessing.

Yep.

There you go.

I liked that little, that path made it easy for me.

I can lose track super easy, but the straightforward structures help.

Yeah, and it's interesting because, know I like to study and I think

it's a good study practice who sort of follow the verbs and break down the passage by clauses that

may sound a little nerdy but it really helps you in like paul's art letters because they're

arguments and so following that structure but But in narrative, sometimes it doesn't

help as much. And here, Luke sort of like makes a point and loops back a bit and makes, and you realize like, oh, there's, you can kind of group this differently and get at it in different ways. And I thought this grouping, I liked it. Like I said, it's not exactly John Stott's, but it's close and I really liked the way he came at it.

So I thought, oh, let's try it that way.

Yeah.

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