Commitment!!

Acts 2: 46

Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts…

 

Statistically, only about 13.5% of Americans attend church every week.

Maybe the people in the Early New Testament church, just did not have anything better to do?

 

This text says, they met together every day.

I wonder if things in our world would change for the better, if we met to worship God, every day?

What a radical point of view.

 

Almost every mainline denomination, has reported consistent declines in church attendance over the last 30 years.

It’s believed today, that most people will not secure membership in any given church, because that usually means commitment.

No fooling?

 

Maybe when there’s commitment in the church again, we’ll actually see churches attendance flourish?

Maybe it will be a day, when we see the return of… “glad and sincere hearts”.

 

The Barna research group says, that the modern day American church, has… “created a consumer church culture.”

The only thing the Early New Testament church seemed to consume, was more of the power of God.

 

Let’s not forget what Jesus told Peter, at Caesarea Philippi, about the church…

“I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.”