The morning sermon comes from acts chapter 2. If you please turn in your

Bibles and follow along as I read we're picking up where we left off two weeks ago in the middle of Peter's

sermon on Pentecost with response to the people to his word. We'll begin reading at verse 37 of acts chapter 2.

Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the rest of the

apostles, brethren what shall we do? And Peter said to them, repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins.

And you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit for the promises to you and to your children and to all that are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to him.

And he testified with many other words and exhorted them, saying,

Save yourselves from this crooked generation.

So those who received his word were baptized and they were added that day about 3,000 souls. The Lord was so good to us Saturday a week ago as about 90 people gathered to be trained

for a prayer ministry that is now a reality at Bethlehem. You saw it in

action last Sunday morning with 25 or 30 people standing all over the hall there, dozens, praying with people after the

service.

And we have a schedule set up so that there will be teams of people ready to pray after every

Sunday morning worship service from now through February.

Now let me just try to create a community sense about what we're doing here.

At the end of this service there will be four teams who will be here at the front. By teams, I think it's

generally two people, could be three, and they'll just be here and they could go

anywhere in this room or anywhere else. The reason they are going to be here is simply to create

this sense. When the word is preached, sometimes we feel like we sort of end it abruptly and we just scatter quickly and we don't have much of a four year here yet where people can linger and just

feel like this business, and we just feel like this business often to be done with God

at the end of the service.

And not only that, we believe that many of you simply come bringing extraordinary burdens.

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