Is your church enjoyable? Do you go to church with an expectation that God is going to do something amazing? Do you regularly bring friends that don't know Christ to church because miraculous things are happening?
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to experience an Acts 2 Holy Spirit moment at your church? Think of having new believers added to your church each week. Some of us pastors are already thinking, "I need to revamp my assimilation process if that happened...I need to start more discipleship groups and I need to get more volunteer staff to provide for this new influx of believers!" What a tremendous problem to have!
47 all the while praising God and enjoying the goodwill of all the people. And each day the Lord added to their fellowship those who were being saved" (Acts 2:47NLT).
According to verse 47 people couldn't contain their enthusiasm. They praised God. And it was fun! It was enjoyable to be around other believers! After that initial meeting in Acts 3000 people came to Christ. These weren't re-dedications, these were first timers! And literally thousands more turned their lives over to Christ.
What if we went out of our way to live our lives in such a way that would be contagious to the non-believer? Let's face it. If you are a believer you have what everyone else is searching for to fill that God shaped hole. What would happen if we asked the Holy Spirit to show up in miraculous ways to bring glory to God our Father?
I am challenging myself to reach out to someone this week that needs Jesus. Let's see God's name glorified and watch what happens when we do!
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