You are listening to David Platt Messages, a weekly podcast with sermons and messages from

pastor, author, and teacher David Platt. If you have a Bible, I invite you to pull it out and open to the book of

no, Luke, we're going to Luke today.

But I'm glad you're so excited about studying Acts, and we're going to get there in just a second.

But the way I figure it, a lot of you are memorizing the whole book anyway, so you don't even need to turn there.

Acts chapter 2, verse 42, if you know it, say it with me.

They devoted themselves to the Apostles' the fellowship to the breaking of bread and to prayer what i want us to do this morning and next

week is begin to look at the worship life of the early church you know it's really interesting when you

when you see this summation in Acts

Chapter 2 that we've been studying about the things they devoted themselves to, you don't see

worship listed anywhere. We're looking at the things that made the early church different.

And many times when we think today about what makes churches different, we talk about worship.

Well, our worship is different in this way. We've got different worship, but that's not one of the things that made them different. Now, that doesn't mean worship wasn't extremely important. I think it was. I think it infiltrates a lot of what we're seeing in Acts chapter 2. But we're going to get a pretty strong clue about the worship life of the early church

as we think about this third thing they devoted themselves to the apostles teaching the

fellowship and the breaking of bread.

Breaking of bread is talking about the Lord's supper.

It's about how they came together to have communion.

And I think we're going to learn a lot about what it means to worship wholeheartedly,

worship truly, based on what scripture teaches about how they devoted themselves to communion,

how they devoted themselves to the Lord's Supper. When we think about worship today, we think about all

kinds of different elements. We think about singing, we think about preaching, we think

about praying, all of these different things we do, maybe even some traditional things that are

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