Vision Sunday

So Acts chapter 2.

The Holy Spirit has been poured out on this kind of remnant of disciples in the upper room.

120 of them.

They're kind of propelled out onto the street.

Peter stands up.

He preaches to this enormous crowd of people.

3,000 people give their lives to Jesus and are spontaneously baptized, which is actually a bit of a logistical challenge, baptizing 3,000 people in one day.

Nevertheless, the church now numbers 3,120 and they start to gather together.

So here you go, Acts chapter 2, reading from verse 41.

It says this, those who accepted his message were baptized and about 3,000 were added to their number that day.

They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.

Everyone was filled with awe at the many wonders and signs performed by the apostles.

All the believers were together and they had everything in common.

They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need.

Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts.

They broke bread in their homes.

So what I want to draw from this passage is really the reality that as soon as these people had come to faith, there's like 3,000 of them, there's something about their instinct, their response that we can learn from, that they start to gather together and they form into what we would recognize as a church, right? They're doing church together, and they're doing church in a way, it's almost like heaven has downloaded a blueprint of, like, this is how you do life together as a community.

And I want to suggest that in this passage, really, like, incredibly briefly, and by the way, today I'm going to speak, you know, like, when you listen to a podcast, and it's, you know, you press, like, one and a half speed? Like, that's what we're doing today, okay? So...