Title: The Church of Our Dreams
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Bible Text: Acts 5:12-16
the church of our dreams
Acts 5:12-16
Inside a small seed is an invisible large tree. The dream he holds and the ability to make that dream come true are together. Today, God tells us to grow every day. No matter how hard we try, we must not stay where we are. Those who are complacent with past successes cannot grow any further. The best day of your life is yet to come. Everyone should have a dreamed tomorrow. We have the church of our dreams.
It is a church where all believers gather.
God called the gathered waters the sea (Genesis 1:10). A church is a group of people gathered in the name of the Lord. A congregation of all believers is called a church. A congregation of members is a church. Believers must gather. We keep Sundays and worship together. Pray, sing, and donate. “Do not forsake the meeting, as is the habit of some, but encourage and do it all the more as you see the day drawing near” (Hebrews 10:25). We encourage each other to gather together to worship and fellowship.
Believers should make it a habit to gather together. It should be natural to go to church on Sundays. This is a good habit for believers. The habit of going to church makes believers. All successful people have good habits. Habits eventually become character. The church has strength when it comes together. The Holy Spirit came upon those who pray with one accord.
“… … .Wherever we are gathered in my name, there I am among them. (Matthew 18:20) Those gathered together do not live by the power of men, but by the power of God. It is because we gather together to hear the word and gain faith. The church we dream of is a church where all believers gather. We invite you all to gather and worship every Sunday.
It is a church that is praised by the people.
The church we dream of is a church that is praised by the world. “… … .The people praised it (verse 13). This is the kind of church we dream of. The Common Translation of the Bible says, “He praised.” is translated as "looked up and looked up". The church that praises is the church that the world looks up to. Non-believers praised the church. The church must be social. The church should look up to the world. It should be a church where no one can be rude.
The church must have the dignity that only the church has. It is an authority that no one can take lightly. The “signs and wonders” revealed through the apostles dignified the church. The Jerusalem church was a church where signs appeared. The crippled incident is the target. It is truly amazing.
When the church shows that God is with him, not with cheap praise or receiving, praise with holy fear. “Don’t praise yourself, let others praise you. Praise is given by others, not with our own lips” (Proverbs 27:2).
“It is beautiful if you endure hardships in the midst of suffering, thinking about God, but what praise is there if you endure being beaten because you are guilty of a sin. But if you suffer for doing good and endure it, it is a beautiful thing in the sight of God. (1 Peter 2:19-20) If you do good and endure reproach and suffering, you will be pleased with God and praised by others. People will praise you when you see that the church is praised for doing good deeds and endures being vaguely reviled. The church we dream of becoming a church praised by the people.
It is a church with many people who come to the Lord.
To be a better person, you need better dreams and better expectations. God has given each person a dream. “There were many who believed and came to the Lord, a great crowd of men and women. (Verse 14) These words are the material of dreams that make us dream.
The church we dream of is a church where many people come to the Lord. The church needs the power to pull the world together. After Jesus was crucified, He said that I would lead everyone. It is worship and evangelism that the church has the power to pull the world away. There must be worship filled with the Holy Spirit and the Word. “And from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace” (John 1:16)
A church that has many people coming to the Lord must bring many people to the Lord. There are many new people who come out only when there are many people who evangelize. New people are added in proportion to the evangelist. The church must evangelize unbelievers. Jesus said, “I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance” (Luke 5:32). Who is a sinner Everyone is a sinner. There is none righteous, not even one. Are church buildings for believers? Is the parking lot for believers? Is the parking lot of our church free for first-time visitors? Without that place, no one comes to the Lord. “Come, all things are ready” (Luke 14:17). Many people come to the Lord only when they can say, “Come, everything is ready.”
Jesus said that he did not come to be served, but to serve. In order for the church to have many people who come to the Lord, it must be a church that serves. If you tell them to serve me and sit still, that person is blocking the way of those who come to the Lord.
The church must seek out the lost. Jesus said, “The Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost” (Luke 19:10). Evangelizing new people is important, but even more important is finding people who have come and gone, those who have left, and those who have stopped attending church again. We need to visit those who have been hurt by those who believe in Jesus and have left. They are the one lost sheep. “Which of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine in the field and go looking for the one that is lost?” (Luke 15:4) Wrong.
There must have been a good reason why people left the Church. It could be because of the wrong preaching, or it could be because of your unkindness. The church we dream of is “a church with many people who come to the Lord.”
It is a church where all things can be healed.
The church we dream of is “a church where all can be healed”.
“Even carrying the sick to the street, they laid them on beds and mattresses, hoping that a shadow might cover them as Peter passed by, so a great number of people from the vicinity of Jerusalem gathered together and brought sick people and those who were tormented by unclean spirits, and they were all healed.” 15-16)
The sick should want to be healed. The lame man also looked at Peter and John, wondering what he might get. It was a vessel to receive grace. Jesus asked the 38-year-old paralytic, “Do you want to get well?” To experience healing, you must have a longing for that grace. “Lord, when the water is stirred, I put myself in the water, and there is no one to measure me, so another goes down first. This answer was the cost of treatment that allowed Jesus to be healed. Jesus told him to pick up your bed and walk.
You must believe that Jesus heals you. “Without faith it is impossible to please God, for he who comes to God must believe that He exists, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.” (Hebrews 11:6) did not do it” (Matthew 13:58). Faith heals the sick. “Your faith has saved you (Luke 17:19). God heals the sick. “God heals and the doctor takes the money. There is a saying. “Everything was healed (verse 16). May you all be healed.
The church we dream of is a verb church, not a noun church. It is not a church that does not change all the time, but a church that is renewed every day. It is a church that bears fruit from the branches of Jesus who became the vine. It is a church where all the saints gather every Sunday. It is a church that is praised, not a church that is criticized. It is a church with many people who come to the Lord. It is a church where all who are spiritually and physically sick are healed. “… … .Our gospel did not come to you with words alone, but with power and with the Holy Spirit and with great conviction” (1 Thessalonians 1:5). Let's move forward towards a better church than today, a better me than now. “All glory to God All glory to God with all my heart and all my soul. All glory to God”