CHARACTERISTICS OF THE EARLY CHURCH

Acts 2:42-47 Real Christianity is a Lovely Thing Characteristics of the Early Church Summary
Acts 2:42-47

• It Was A Learning Church---
  • Listening to the Apostles As They Taught
  • Looked Forward Instead of Backward
    “Riches of Christ are Inexhaustible”
  • Learning Something New Every Day
    “We Should Penetrate More Deeply into the Wisdom and Grace of God.”
  
  
• It Was A Church of Fellowship---
  • The Great Quality of Togetherness
  • A Band of Brothers and Sisters
  
  
• It Was A Praying Church---
  • They Knew They Could Not Meet Life in Their Own Strength
  • They Always Went In To God Before They Went Out to the World
  • They Were Able to Meet the Problems of Life Because They Had First Met Him
  
  
• It Was A Reverent Church---
  • A Sense of Awe (Fear)
  • Knowing that the Whole Earth Was Created by Him...and is the Temple of God
  
  
• It Was a Church Where Things Happened---
  • Signs and Wonders Were There
  • “If We Expect Great Things from God and Attempt Great Things for God...Things Happen!”
  • “Most Things Would Happen If We Believed that God and We Together Could Make Them Happen!”
  
  
• It Was A Sharing Church---
  • They Had An Intense Feeling of Responsibility for Each Other
  • A Real Christian Cannot Bear to Have Too Much When Others Have So Little
  
  
• It Was A Worshipping Church---
  • They Never Forgot To Visit God's House
  • Things Can Happen When We Come Together
  • God's Spirit Moves Upon His Worshipping People.
  
  
• It Was A Happy Church---
  • Gladness Was There
  • A Gloomy Christian Is Contradictory to the Fact
  
  
• It Was A Church Whose People Others Could Not Help Liking---
  
  • Two Greek Words for Good. Agathos simply describes a thing as good. Kalos means that a thing is not only good but looks good; it has a winsome attractiveness about it.
  • Real Christianity is a Lovely Thing
  • "There are many people who are good but with their goodness possess a streak of unlovely hardness."

Is Our/Your Church Liked?
Do I/You Like People?
Do We Give of Ourselves To Assure Ourselves That We Are A Winsome Church?

Final Thought:
A Winsome Church Wins People To The Lord.