Sermon Title: MAKING ROOM AT THE TABLE
Sermon Text: ACTS 2:42-47
Sermon Series: UNSTOPPABLE: A Sermon Series Through the Book of Acts.
Part 1: A Spirit-Filled Beginning
By: PTR NIC SY
Acts 2:42-47 ESV
And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.And awe came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were being done through the apostles.And all who believed were together and had all things in common.And they were selling their possessions and belongings and distributing the proceeds to all, as any had need.And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous heartspraising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved.
SERMON NOTES
I. GATHER AROUND THE TABLE
A genuine work of God does not merely create excitement in a moment. It produces devotion over time.
The church is not only a gathering where we look toward a stage. The church is also a table where we learn to look toward one another.
The church is not held together by everything we have in common, but by the Christ we have in common.
II. PUT SOMETHING ON THE TABLE
Rules can tell me exactly what percentage I am required to give. Grace asks a different question: “What has God put in my hands, and how might he want to use it for someone else?”
Generosity is one of the most ordinary expressions of visible grace flowing from people who know they have received grace.
Grace changes what we do with what we have.
III. MAKE ROOM FOR ONE MORE
The gospel was not only being proclaimed with words. The gospel was being displayed in a community.
You cannot sustain with duty what was meant to flow from devotion.
There are responsibilities that belong to us. And there are results that belong to God.
The God who adds also uses his people.