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Church Growing Pains

Twenty lessons from the New Testament's book of Acts.




Contents

Chapter 1 Putting first things first Acts 1:1-26

Chapter 2 Taking all the help you can get

Acts 2:1-21

Chapter 3 Meetings and more meetings

Acts 2:42-47

Chapter 4 Preaching relevant sermons

Acts 2:14-41

Chapter 5 Showing Christ’s power

Acts 3:1- 26; 4:1-4

Chapter 6 Overcoming opposition

Acts 4:1- 31; 5:1- 11; 6:1-7

Chapter 7 Pooling resources

Acts 4:32- 37; 11:27-30

Chapter 8 Allowing God to purify Acts 5:1-11


Chapter 9 Changing church structure Acts 6:1-7

Chapter 10 Knowing what is of God Acts 8:9- 25; 16:6-10

Chapter 11 Speaking personally for Christ Acts 8:26-40

Chapter 12 Meeting people Christ has changed Acts 9:10-28; 22:12-16

Chapter 13 Accepting God’s work for you to do Acts 10

Chapter 14 Seeing beyond your own work Acts 11:19- 29, 13:1-3

Chapter 15 Sorting out tradition Acts 15:1-35

Chapter 16 Working as a team Acts 13:1- 3, 18:1- 4, 18

Chapter 17 Encouraging others into the ministry Acts 15:36- 40; 16:1-5

Chapter 18 Planting new churches (congregations) Acts 14:21- 28, 16:11-40

Chapter 19 Preserving spiritual fruit Acts 20:17-31

Chapter 20 Remaining faithful to the end Acts 28:11-31

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