When God Adds To The Church

When God Adds To the Church
Acts 2:37-47

Two clear components of the early church:

1. For Inclusion: Acts 2:37-40
   
2. For Practice: Acts 2: 41-47

For Inclusion: Acts 2:37-40

• Repentance
  
  • Stop proceeding and turn around!
    
• Baptism
  
  • Identity, Initiation, Immersion
    
• Receive the gift of the Holy Spirit
  
  • the person in power!

For Practice: Acts 2:41-47

• Continuing in the Apostolic message
  
  • Acts 2:14-36 = The public reading of the Scripture
    
• Continuing in Fellowship
  
  • both in the temple and house to house
    
  • Proverbs 27:17; Galatians 4:19
    
• Continuing in “The prayers”
  
  • Psalms
    
  • Lord’s Prayer
    
  • Doxologies

Scriptural Doxologies

• Philippians 2:6-11
  
• II Timothy 2:11-13

The Creeds
(from the <Latin> credo = I believe)

The Apostles Creed

I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth. 
I believe in Jesus Christ, God's only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried; he descended to the dead. On the third day he rose again; he ascended into heaven, he is seated at the right hand of the Father, and he will come again to judge the living and the dead. 
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. AMEN.