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📣 What kind of church does God delight to bless? 🤔 Acts 2:42-47 gives us the first glimpse of the New Testament church—its heartbeat, its priorities, and its unmistakable devotion to Christ. This message reflects on the early believers and the qualities that marked their life together: their commitment to God’s Word, their fellowship, their prayer, their obedience, and their sacrificial care for one another. As we look at the first church, we’re invited to consider our own. What does it mean for a local church today to follow this pattern? And what part does each of us play in building a church that honours Christ and reflects His love to the world?

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Let me ask you a question. How do you continue steadfastly in the word of God? Or when you say a church is continuing steadfastly in the word of God, what do you mean? Firstly, there is the faithful preaching and teaching of God’s word. But what happens when we only preach and teach God’s word, but we do not do? Is that faithful or not?

We preach about love, but we do not love. We preach about godliness, but when the people are living in sin we do not do anything. Is that faithful or not? No. So there must also be a commitment to obey God’s word.

If the church is not faithful to the word of God, we can forget about all the other activities. They will surely fall, no matter how interesting or exciting those programs may be, because the foundation is weak or there is no foundation at all.

we must first look at the church commitment to the word of God. Is the church faithful or not? That must be at the top of our priorities.