“And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues,
as the Spirit gave them utterance.” (Acts 2:4)
In our lessons from Acts 2 we are looking again at verse four. The following context of that verse is clear that every person in that upper room on the Day of Pentecost participated in the ministry of the word and Spirit. The apostles were the human leaders, but the Spirit was the true leader and He made all of them ministers of the word. “They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in tongues.” And “Look, are not all these who speak Galileans?”
To make the church all it can be, God must use all the members; therefore, every member of the body must participate in the ministry of Christ. All are necessary to make the fullest impact on this world and our loved ones. The church today is not living up to its potential as it did in the Model Church. And probably no member is doing that either. We could all do better to be all that we can be. It’s true in our natural life on this planet when it comes to things we want to accomplish. Thomas Edison once said, “The harder I work the luckier I get.” And this is equally true in spiritual matters and in the church. God wants us to live up to our potential. You should too. You want that for your kids and God wants that for His.
The question is – how can we best do this? First we learn that the church is only the church when it is gathered. We are each individual members, but only when the body comes together are we the church of the Lord Jesus Christ. We function as a body when all the parts of it are together, and when everyone is participating in the function of that church.
The church is God’s supernatural body of people gathered together to do supernatural things. That’s what we find in Acts. We are not just a PTO meeting, or a session of congress, or a school board meeting. A team is only a team when it is together. We are a meeting of Christ’s team and every member of that team needs to show up for every practice and game. We are a supernatural team, endued with the power of God to do spiritual gifts which enable us to raise the spiritually dead to life by the preaching of the gospel, heal the sick, cast out demons, give helpful prophetic words, speak in tongues with interpretation, and other such wonderful and powerful things.
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