The Apostles’ Teachings
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 17 February 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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How can we assess a church’s effectiveness? By congregation size? Programs? Music? Listen as Alistair Begg begins a study of church priorities by exploring what made the apostles’ teachings so powerful and compelling. That’s our focus on Truth For Life.
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| 0:00.0 | The What? What's the best way to assess a church's effectiveness? You look at the size of the |
| 0:29.8 | building or the congregation, the specialty programs they have, the energy of the worship music. |
| 0:35.3 | Today on Truth for Life Weekend we'll hear the answers as we begin a series called |
| 0:39.7 | Seven Marks of an Effective Church. |
| 0:42.1 | Alistairbegg is exploring the Apostles' Teach. seven marks of an effective church. |
| 0:42.6 | Alistairbegg is exploring the Apostles' teaching to determine what makes their instruction |
| 0:48.0 | so powerful and compelling. Now can I invite you to take your Bibles and turn with me to the Acts of the Apostles and to |
| 1:00.9 | Chapter 2 where I'd like to read the closing verses of the chapter. |
| 1:06.0 | There are familiar words reading from verse 42 through to verse 47. They devoted themselves to the Apostles teaching and to the |
| 1:18.4 | fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. |
| 1:24.1 | Everyone was filled with awe and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the |
| 1:28.8 | apostles. All the believers were together and had everything in common. |
| 1:35.0 | Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need. |
| 1:41.0 | Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. |
| 1:45.0 | They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, |
| 1:50.0 | praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. |
| 1:54.0 | And the Lord added to their number daily |
| 1:57.0 | those who were being saved. |
| 2:01.0 | Amen. |
| 2:09.4 | This morning as we concluded our introductory study in First Timothy, we did so noticing the emphasis which Paul laid upon the importance of sound doctrine. |
| 2:17.0 | And indeed he was concerned to refute everything which stood in opposition be so vital for the building up of God's people. |
| 2:30.0 | And we said this morning that we would return to this emphasis this evening. |
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