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Partnership that Transforms Our Understanding of Mission: A Case Study from Acts

Partnership that Transforms Our Understanding of Mission: A Case Study from Acts

by | Mar 6, 2007 |

God is sovereign. He reigns victorious over the all the earth. He alone is Lord. The church is missionary. That is its calling. The church is called out of the world in order to be sent back into the world. It is to be not of the world, so that it can be in the world as the change-agent. Those are Jesus’ words, recorded in John’s missionary text.1 The church is invited by the Holy Spirit to send apostolic teams comprised of its best and its brightest to change the world.

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Acts 2:41-47 Believe, Be Baptized, Belong: Responding to the Gospel in Acts 2

by | Jan 4, 2026 | ,

In Acts 2:41-47, the early church's response to Peter's Pentecost sermon reveals a profound pattern: believe, be baptized, belong. Those who "received his word" (true saving faith in Christ's death and resurrection, coupled with repentance) were immediately baptized—about 3,000 souls added that day. They then devoted themselves to apostles' teaching, fellowship, breaking bread, and prayer, forming a unified community marked by awe, generosity, and daily growth as the Lord added to their number.
This threefold response—personal trust in the Gospel, public declaration through believer's baptism by immersion, and committed belonging to a local church—remains the biblical model for thriving in faith today.

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