{"id":44952,"date":"2022-10-01T01:35:43","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T06:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/the-lords-church-is-well-when-bible-study\/"},"modified":"2022-10-01T01:35:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T06:35:43","slug":"the-lords-church-is-well-when-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/the-lords-church-is-well-when-bible-study\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lord&#039;s Church Is Well When &#8230;.. &#8211; Bible study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lord&#8217;s church is &#8220;well&#8221; when it practices the following activities as outlined in Acts 2:41-47:<\/p>\n<p><strong>W<\/strong>-orship<br \/> <strong>E<\/strong>-vangelize<br \/> <strong>L<\/strong>-earn<br \/> <strong>L<\/strong>-ove<\/p>\n<p><strong>Worship<\/strong>  Members of the Lord&#8217;s church must meet together for fellowship, communion, prayer, and praise (Acts 2:42; Acts 2:47). The Lord is to be the focus of all we do in His church (Hebrews 12:2; Matthew 16:18).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Evangelize<\/strong>  As people obey the Lord&#8217;s conditions of salvation, the Lord will add new Christians to the church (Acts 2:41; Acts 2:47). As Christians, we can all take part in spreading God&#8217;s Word by developing a friendship, by giving someone an article about the gospel, sharing a gospel tract with someone, or by sharing some Scripture verses with a friend.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Learn<\/strong>  Christians must continue learning sound doctrine taught by qualified teachers (Acts 2:42). The Bible is filled with instruction for living, and we should take every opportunity to learn from it, apply it to our lives, and teach others (2 Timothy 2:15; James 1:22; 2 Timothy 2:1-2).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Love<\/strong>  We demonstrate our love when we share with whoever has need, and enjoy the fellowship of other Christians regularly (Acts 2:45-46; Romans 12:10; Hebrews 10:25).<\/p>\n<p>A church whose members worship, evangelize, learn, and love will be a &#8220;well&#8221; church, effective in the community, and appreciated by &#8220;all the people&#8221; (Acts 2:47).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lord&#8217;s church is &#8220;well&#8221; when it practices the following activities as outlined in Acts 2:41-47: W-orship E-vangelize L-earn L-ove Worship Members of the Lord&#8217;s church must meet together for fellowship, communion, prayer, and praise (Acts 2:42; Acts 2:47). The Lord is to be the focus of all we do in His church (Hebrews 12:2; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/the-lords-church-is-well-when-bible-study\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Lord&#039;s Church Is Well When &#8230;.. &#8211; Bible study&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}