When you see the beginnings of the Early Church in the Book of Acts, you see a Church Alive empowered by the Spirit of God and the Word of God.
Now, I'm afraid today that there are numbers of Churches in Australia, that if you were to do a spiritual autopsy on them you would find out that they are dead. Their spiritual hearts have stopped and in some churches their spiritual heartbeat stopped years ago.
There are dead Churches all around the world! Churches that are dead spiritually. People are still attending dead churches today but there is no spiritual life. Dead Churches don't preach the Gospel. Dead Churches have no concern for souls. Dead Churches are more concerned with formality rather than maturity. Dead Churches are captured by the Spirit of the Age rather than the Spirit of God! Sadly dead Churches promote sin rather than condemning sin.
Dead Churches look inward rather than upward because they don't even look for the coming of the Lord Jesus at the Rapture!
In the Book of Acts we see the Church alive. I believe that even today, some 2000 years later if we examine the Church alive in the Book of Acts, we will learn what makes the Church alive in 2022.
I believe that if we would just take some basic principles that we see in the Book of Acts and apply them, then many Churches would begin to see revival and life amongst the people of God.
There are four things that made the early Church alive in the Book of Acts.
The Early Church was a Prayerful Church. The Early Church was a Powerful Church. The Early Church was a Preaching Church and The Early Church was a Personable Church.
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Vincent Wall is an Australian pastor who has ministered in Churches in Sydney and Country NSW since 1995. He currently has an itinerant preaching ministry and has recently authored the book called “Tradition or Truth”.
