When It Comes to the Church, Stick to the Acts
“But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” – Acts 1:8 At the beginning of the book of Acts, Jesus gives his apostles and all who would follow, a command to take what they’d seen and heard, and be witness to those things in all the world. For all intents and purposes, this would signify the beginning of the Christian Church. This group of ragtag Jewish apprentices would take that command and create a blueprint for the Church that would be passed down from generation-to-generation, and the body of believers would blossom into a world-wide phenomenon of people from every tribe and tongue. But in the age of declining church attendance, and an increase of those who claim to be irreligious, do we face an existential crisis of unbelief due to outdated orthodoxy, or can the Church be all that it was meant to be from the time Christ left us with His story to tell? I believe that God’s plan for the Church was perfect when penned in the first century A.D., and I believe that the tenets that were laid
