Some of you may have grown up in church.
Some of you may have found a church to attend while on vacation.
Some of you may have gone to church overseas and worshipped in another language.
It is likely you have attended more than one church in your lifetime. Take a moment to reflect on those experiences. What was beautiful? What might have been new or even uncomfortable? What was familiar? Every local church has a core and a culture, and we can learn from them all–especially those from the first century!
In the second half of the book of Acts, we find bunches of incredible miracles, heroic sacrifices, and godly adventures. But as we read this section of Scripture together this spring, behind the amazing events we will catch a glimpse of God working through four prototype local church communities: Jerusalem, Antioch, Ephesus, and Rome. What can we learn from these churches? As we resume our “Acts: Living God” series, we will explore one of the first and most important lessons from Jerusalem in Acts 12.