Jesus said He would build His church in Matt. 16:18. The church was always in the future tense until Acts 2. It was 50 days after Jesus’s death, on the day of Pentecost, AD 33. After Peter’s sermon, ( JESUS said He would give Peter “the Keys to the kingdom”.), 3000 Jews obeyed Peter’s command to “repent and be baptized…for the remission of sins.” Verse 47 says that “THE LORD ADDED TO THE CHURCH THOSE WHO WERE BEING SAVED.” This is the first time the church is spoken of as being in existence.
Christians met on the first day of the week (Sunday to us) to take the LORD’S SUPPER and Paul PREACHED to them. Acts 20:7 PRAYER was always encouraged in the New Testament1 Tim.2:8 and 1 Thess. 5:17. And SINGING Ephesians 5:19, Colossians 3:16, Hebrews 13:15. In 1 Cor. 16:2, Paul told the churches to take up COLLECTIONS on the first day of the week. THOSE ARE 5 acts of worship.
We are given the warning in REV. 22:18 not to ADD to his word or TAKE AWAY from it. Or God will punish us. Any other Acts of worship, if not in the New Testament,
would be from man—not God; or would be “boastful” works that originate with man and of which he can boast. Or would be “additions.”
2 John 9 we must abide in the doctrine of Christ to have God.
Christians met on the first day of the week (Sunday to us) to take the LORD’S SUPPER and Paul PREACHED to them. Acts 20:7 PRAYER was always encouraged in the New Testament1 Tim.2:8 and 1 Thess. 5:17. And SINGING Ephesians 5:19, Colossians 3:16, Hebrews 13:15. In 1 Cor. 16:2, Paul told the churches to take up COLLECTIONS on the first day of the week. THOSE ARE 5 acts of worship.
We are given the warning in REV. 22:18 not to ADD to his word or TAKE AWAY from it. Or God will punish us. Any other Acts of worship, if not in the New Testament,
would be from man—not God; or would be “boastful” works that originate with man and of which he can boast. Or would be “additions.”
2 John 9 we must abide in the doctrine of Christ to have God.
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