The Necessity of the Local Church (Part a)

The Acts of the Apostles
The Growth and Expansion of the Church in Jerusalem

Parenthesis: Why the Church? (1)


The Spirit’s Work in the Hearts of Men (2:37-47) (1)

II.The Growth and Expansion of the Church in Jerusalem (1:9-8:3)
A.The Prelude to Pentecost (1:9-26)
B.The Day of Pentecost: The Age of the Spirit (2:1-46)
1.The Advent of the Holy Spirit (2:1-13)
2.The Explanation of the Spirit’s Advent (2:14-36)
3.The Consequence of the Spirit’s Advent (2:37-40)

Christianity vs the Local Church

Why the Local Church is Not Necessary
●Being saved has nothing to do with attending church

Why the Local Church is Necessary
●Believers are addressed as part of gathered communities of saints
●The execution of the “one another” exhortations
●The fact of Jesus’ resurrection
●The believer’s responsibility to submit to their elders
○draw awayto pull from or out of
○lordingdomineer, overpower, intimidate
○examplemark, type, model, copy, sketch
●The mission of the church