God has made it very apparent, now, what to study in my Bible; and that’s Acts. I had been struggling to find a real focus of what to read in the Bible since the inception of 2010. I started going through a couple little reading plans, but none of it was really speaking to me. Then I offhandedly decided, “I haven’t read Acts in a while. That would be good.” Which lead me to study out the progression of acts of service and compassion in the early church. But now I really have the wind in my sails, as Don announced last night at our men’s midweek service that a 72 day study series on the book of Acts is available on our church’s website.
Acts is short for Actions, you know? What better example to follow for a year of Faith in Action than by the Scriptural example of the early church.
We are also engaging the spiritual war by remembering that we are in one. We were reminded that an allegiance with Jesus gives us an automatic birthmark target for evil attacks. Watch out!
January 28th, 2010 at 11:00 am
Well Bro I know for me this has been on my heart as well. Not so much reading the book of Acts, but putting my faith into action. This leads me to these passages in James 2:14-26.
So I presonally have been lacking in this walk in my christian life.
Jesus said in Matthew you are the light of the world and this light should be seen by all people. If you have faith there has to be some actions that work together with that faith otherwise James says your faith is useless.
The 2 have to go hand in hand, having a real faith leads to real change in your life and leads to real works in the community you live in, the one you work in, or maybe the one which God sends you to i.e. the world mission field.
Once we have a real faith our life should reflect Jesus and others should be able to see that in our choices, the way we act, the way we handle our money and our relationships and the way we relate to others.
Why did Jesus show and teach people how to pray for the sick, take care of the poor, how to live a life that is different to the one the rest or the world was living and why did Jesus finish his works by saying, “Now you go and do the same.”
Everything I’ve just shown you, everything I’ve taught you – go do it – you are now the light of the world – now shine
If your faith is real there will be an action.