| C. J. Mahaney, Greg Somerville - 1996 - 130 pages
...you first became a Christian? he pleaded with them, "Save yourselves from this corrupt generation." Those who accepted his message were baptized, and...fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. (Ac 2:40-42) This passage shows a natural three-part progression which Christians in our day should... | |
| Harold E. Dollar - 1996 - 216 pages
...Luke also attributes all of the "signs and wonders" to the apostles in these opening chapters of Acts. "Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles" (2:43). Acts 3 shows Peter and John healing the cripple at the "beautiful gate." Acts 5:12 says: 'The... | |
| Bo Boshers, Kim Anderson - 1997 - 286 pages
...powerful example for us today. Acts 2:42-44 paints an incredible picture of God's design for community: They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching...believers were together and had everything in common. Did you catch that last phrase, "all the believers were together"? The verse does not say "all the... | |
| Siang-Yang Tan, Douglas H. Gregg - 1997 - 244 pages
...met together every day, eating together in their homes and praising God with glad and sincere hearts. 'They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching...awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done" (Acts 2:42-43). It has been traditional in the West to think "church" happens only on Sunday morning.... | |
| Leroy Lawson - 1997 - 68 pages
...all. Recognizing their need, they immediately set about to grow. What they did we learn from verse 42: "They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching...fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. " Let's look at each of these. THE APOSTLES' TEACHING There were so many things the newest followers... | |
| James Girdwood, Peter Verkruyse - 1997 - 446 pages
...homes and in the temple to talk about Jesus and "the Way." They gathered with hungry ears for they had "devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and...fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer" (Acts 2:42). Soon they "filled Jerusalem with their teaching." Within a short time 40Bauer defines... | |
| Paul D. Bramsen - 1998 - 548 pages
...taken place on the inside. And so, the Scripture says: "Those who accepted [the message of the Gospel] were baptized, and about three thousand were added...fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. . . .and the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit." (Acts 2:41,42; 13:52) Thus,... | |
| I. Howard Marshall, David Peterson - 1998 - 638 pages
...2:42 provides a brief summary of the activity of the first group of Christians, where we are told that 'they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching...fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer'. Some commentators regard the four elements specified in this verse as a primitive liturgical sequence,... | |
| Grant R. Osborne, Philip W. Comfort - 1999 - 502 pages
...earliest days of the church. Acts 2:4l-42 says. "Those who accepted (Peter's] message were haptized. and about three thousand were added to their number...to the fellowship. to the breaking of bread and to praver" tNIV). "Breaking of bread" refers to Communion sen ices that were celebrated in remembrance... | |
| Paul Basden - 1999 - 172 pages
...edification of the church, the people of God. You see it in the early church in Jerusalem, where the people "devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and...fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer" (Acts 2:42). You also see it in the more mature church in Ephesus, where the Christians would "speak... | |
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