The 14th day of a 30 day devotional Bible Study by the Rev. Tracy A. Siegman, Senior Pastor FCC, Covington, KY. Shared with her gracious permission.
If you read the suggested passage each day, by the end of 30 days you will have read the entire New Testament.
Day 14
30-day reading plan: Acts 1 – 7
Daily Verse: Acts 2: 42
They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer .
Jesus created a community of believers in the Disciples who would carry on His ministry and teach and preach what they had heard after He was taken up. The Apostles, the 11 Disciples plus Matthias, taught what they had learned and spoke of what they had witnessed. Through the power of the Holy Spirit, a new community was built of the family of believers. It grew and grew as the Apostles preached and people came to believe.
30-day reading plan: Acts 1 – 7
Daily Verse: Acts 2: 42
They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer .
Jesus created a community of believers in the Disciples who would carry on His ministry and teach and preach what they had heard after He was taken up. The Apostles, the 11 Disciples plus Matthias, taught what they had learned and spoke of what they had witnessed. Through the power of the Holy Spirit, a new community was built of the family of believers. It grew and grew as the Apostles preached and people came to believe.
The community of believers devoted themselves to listening to the Apostle's teaching, prayer, and table
fellowship. This was the earliest model of worship. They devoted themselves to worship, because they
could learn what Jesus had taught and had done. They could be strengthened by the fellowship of other
believers. They could pray together. You might say this model started on Jesus' last night when He and the
Disciples ate together, sang songs, and went to the Garden of Gethsemane to pray. The Apostles gave this
tradition to the new community of believers.
It is important that Christians today devote themselves to worship in a community of believers. It was the act of the first church which has been handed down to us through the ages. In worship, we pray as a community for one another. We learn God's word as it is proclaimed. We share in table fellowship as we partake of the Lord's Supper.
Regular attendance in worship is vital to your faith journey, just as it was to the first community of believers. When you join a church and participate in its community, you create a covenant that you will journey in faith together and encourage one another to grow spiritually.
It is important that Christians today devote themselves to worship in a community of believers. It was the act of the first church which has been handed down to us through the ages. In worship, we pray as a community for one another. We learn God's word as it is proclaimed. We share in table fellowship as we partake of the Lord's Supper.
Regular attendance in worship is vital to your faith journey, just as it was to the first community of believers. When you join a church and participate in its community, you create a covenant that you will journey in faith together and encourage one another to grow spiritually.
Question for reflection:
Why do you attend worship?
Why do you attend worship?
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