prayers of a gospel congregation

Posted on July 20, 2020 by Jefferson Vann
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prayers of a gospel congregation

Acts 4:23-31 (JDV)

Acts 4:23 After they were let go, they went to their own people and reported everything the chief priests and the elders had said to them.
Acts 4:24 When they heard this, they lifted up their voices with the same passion to God and said, “Master, you are the one who made the sky, the land, and the sea, and everything in them.
Acts 4:25 You said through the Sacred Breath, by the mouth of our ancestor David your servant: Why do the Gentiles rage and the peoples plot futile things?
Acts 4:26 The kings of the land take their stand and the rulers assemble at the same place against the Lord and against his Messiah.
Acts 4:27 “For, in fact, in this city both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, assembled together against your devoted servant Jesus, whom you anointed,
Acts 4:28 to do whatever your hand and your will had predestined to take place.
Acts 4:29 And now, Lord, give attention to their threats, and grant that your slaves may speak your word with all boldness,
Acts 4:30 while you stretch out your hand for healing, and signs and marvels are performed through the name of your devoted servant Jesus.”
Acts 4:31 When they had prayed, the place where they were assembled was shaken, and they were all filled with the Sacred Breath and began to speak the word of God boldly.

prayers of a gospel congregation

The prayers mentioned in this passage serve as a pattern for the prayers of a congregation which is focused on reaching its community with the gospel.

They are scriptural prayers. They show how God dealing with the congregation is consistent with how he has dealt with the faithful in the past.

They are relevant prayers. They reflect on what is currently happening — good or bad.

They are missionary prayers, seeking boldness to obey the Great Commission.

They are effective prayers. They change things because God wants to change things through them.

Lord, make us people who pray these kinds of prayers. Make our churches gospel congregations.

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how to handle opposition

Posted on July 19, 2020 by Jefferson Vann
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how to handle opposition

Acts 4:1-22 (JDV)

Acts 4:1 While they were speaking to the people, the priests, the captain of the temple police, and the Sadducees confronted them,
Acts 4:2 because they were annoyed that they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection of the dead.
Acts 4:3 So they forced hands on them and took them into custody until the next day since it was already evening.
Acts 4:4 But many of those who heard the message believed, and the number of the men came to about five thousand.
Acts 4:5 The next day, their rulers, elders, and scribes assembled in Jerusalem
Acts 4:6 with Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and all the members of the high-priestly family.
Acts 4:7 After they had Peter and John stand before them, they began to question them: “By what power or in what name have you done this?”
Acts 4:8 Then Peter was filled with the Sacred Breath and said to them, “Rulers of the people and elders:
Acts 4:9 If we are being examined today about a good deed done to a disabled man, by what means he was rescued,
Acts 4:10 let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified and whom God raised up from the dead – by him this man is standing here before you healthy.
Acts 4:11 This Jesus is the stone rejected by you builders, which has become the head corner.
Acts 4:12 There is rescue in no one else, for there is no other name under the sky given to people by which it is necessary to rescue us.”
Acts 4:13 When observing the boldness of Peter and John and realizing that they had been uneducated and amateur men, they were amazed and recognized that they had been with Jesus.
Acts 4:14 And since they were seeing the man who had been healed standing with them, they had nothing to say in opposition.
Acts 4:15 After they ordered them to leave the Sanhedrin, they conferred among themselves,
Acts 4:16 saying, “What should we do with these men? Because an obvious sign has been done through them, clear to everyone residing in Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it.
Acts 4:17 But so that this does not spread any further among the people, let’s threaten them against speaking to anyone in this name again.”
Acts 4:18 So they called for them and directed them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus.
Acts 4:19 Peter and John reacted to them, “Whether it’s right in the sight of God for us to listen to you rather than to God, you decide;
Acts 4:20 because we are unable to stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.”
Acts 4:21 After threatening them further, they let them go. They found no way to punish them because the people were all giving glory to God over what had been done.
Acts 4:22 You see, this sign of healing had been performed on a man over forty years old.

how to handle opposition

This story is in our gospel guidebook because God wants us to know that we will face opposition in our attempts to share Christ.

The principle is this: boldly do as much good as you can in order to draw attention to the difference Jesus can make. When you do, expect people to be annoyed at the rocking boat. Use this opposition to do the same thing: proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ. When people pressure you to keep your faith quiet, don’t give in to the pressure. Do what God wants, and let him take care of the results.

Lord, make us people who intentionally draw attention to you, even when others want us to draw back.

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a Jesus centered gospel message

Posted on July 18, 2020 by Jefferson Vann
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a Jesus centered gospel message

Acts 3:12-26 (JDV)

Acts 3:12 When Peter saw this, he reacted to the people: “Fellow Israelites, why are you amazed at this? Why do you stare at us, as though we had made him walk by our own power or godliness?
Acts 3:13 The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our ancestors, has glorified his servant Jesus, whom you handed over and denied before Pilate, though he had decided to let him go.
Acts 3:14 You denied the Sacred and Righteous One and asked to have a murderer released to you.
Acts 3:15 You killed the source of life, whom God raised up from the dead; we are testifiers of this.
Acts 3:16 And on the basis of faith in his name, his name has made this man strong, whom you observe and know. So the faith that comes through Jesus has given him this completeness in front of all of you.
Acts 3:17 “And now, brothers and sisters, I know that you acted in ignorance, just as your leaders also did.
Acts 3:18 In this way God fulfilled what he had predicted through all the prophets – that his Messiah would endure this.
Acts 3:19 Therefore seriously change your mind and turn back, so that your mistakes may be wiped out,
Acts 3:20 that periods of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send Jesus, who has been appointed for you as the Messiah.
Acts 3:21 The sky must welcome him until the time of the restoration of all things, which God spoke about through his devoted prophets an age ago.
Acts 3:22 In fact, Moses said: The Lord your God will get a prophet up for you like me from among your brothers and sisters. You must listen to everything he tells you.
Acts 3:23 And every throat who does not listen to that prophet will be eliminated from the people.
Acts 3:24 “In addition, all the prophets who have spoken, from Samuel and those after him, have also foretold these days.
Acts 3:25 You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your ancestors, saying to Abraham, And all the families of the land will be blessed through your posterity.
Acts 3:26 God got his servant up and sent him first to you to empower you by turning each of you from your evil ways.”

a Jesus centered gospel message

Peter takes advantage of this new window dressing miracle to preach another Jesus centered gospel message. He explains who Jesus is. He explains why Jesus had to die, and why he was raised from the dead. He offers hope of renewal and future blessing through Christ. And he predicts the second coming of Christ, along with a warning that those who refuse to trust in Jesus today, will be eliminated at his return. He even hints at the mission of these Israelites, because he says that God sent Jesus “first to you.” Once they receive Jesus, he will send them to the gentiles with this same gospel message.

Lord, show us how to spread the gospel message about Jesus.

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when the fixture jumped

Posted on July 17, 2020 by Jefferson Vann
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when the fixture jumped

Acts 3:1-11 (JDV)

Acts 3:1 Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer (the ninth).
Acts 3:2 Some man – lame from the womb – was being carried there. He was placed each day at the temple gate called Beautiful, so that he could beg from those coming into the temple.
Acts 3:3 When he saw Peter and John about to enter the temple, he asked for charity.
Acts 3:4 Peter, along with John, looked straight at him and said, “Look at us.”
Acts 3:5 So he turned to them, expecting to get something from them.
Acts 3:6 But Peter said, “I don’t have silver or gold, but what I do have, I give you: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk!”
Acts 3:7 Then, taking him by the right hand he raised him up, and at once his feet and ankles became strong.
Acts 3:8 So he jumped up and started to walk, and he entered the temple with them – walking, leaping, and praising God.
Acts 3:9 All the people saw him walking and praising God,
Acts 3:10 and they recognized that he was the one who used to sit and beg at the Beautiful Gate of the temple. So they were filled with awe and a condition of ecstasy at what had happened to him.
Acts 3:11 While he was holding on to Peter and John, all the people, utterly astonished, ran toward them in what is called Solomon’s Colonnade.

when the fixture jumped

Just like the miracle at Pentecost, the healing of the lame beggar was not supposed the be an end of itself. It too was window dressing, aimed at drawing a crowd so that the onlookers could hear the gospel. The beggar had been a fixture to the temple courts. Everyone expected to see him when they entered. But when he was there jumping around and praising God, they would all want to know what caused the change.

We should pray daily for those who are in bondage, and crippling diseases or injuries create a bondage. Our prayers should target those cases of bondage and ask God to bring those people to freedom from them. But we cannot afford to let our prayers stop there. We need to pray for healing as a means to openness to the gospel.

Lord, help us to mold our prayers so that they lead people to the gospel.

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every day

Posted on July 16, 2020 by Jefferson Vann
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every day

Acts 2:42-47 (JDV)

Acts 2:42 They stayed busily engaged in the missionaries’ teaching, to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread, and to prayer.
Acts 2:43 Every throat was filled with fear, and many marvels and signs were being performed through the missionaries.
Acts 2:44 Now all the believers were at the same place and held all things in common.
Acts 2:45 They were selling their possessions and property and divided up the proceeds among everyone, whenever any had need.
Acts 2:46 Every day they stayed busily engaged, meeting together with the same passion in the temple, and broke bread from house to house. They ate their food with delight and sincerity of heart,
Acts 2:47 praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. Every day the Lord added to the same place those who were being rescued.

every day

We could transform our individual spiritual lives, our congregations, and our community if we seriously applied merely two words of this passage. Those two words are “every day.”

The Pentecost congregation got into the word every day.
They stayed connected with each other every day.
They ate with each other every day.
They prayed for each other every day.
They shared with the needy whenever a need presented itself.
They met at the temple every day.
They went from house to house every day.
They praised God every day.
They enjoyed the favor of the community every day.

It should come as no surprise, then, that the Lord added to their numbers, not weekly, but daily. They were a congregation on a mission. That is the kind of congregation the Lord wants to add to.

Lord, make us a congregation on a mission. Instill in us a passion that cannot be fulfilled on a mere weekly basis.

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a God thing

Posted on July 15, 2020 by Jefferson Vann
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a God thing

Acts 2:14-41 (JDV)

Acts 2:14 Peter stood up with the Eleven, lifted up his voice, and proclaimed to them: “Fellow Jews and all you residents of Jerusalem, let me explain this to you and pay attention to my words.
Acts 2:15 You see, these people are not drunk, as you assume, since it’s only nine in the morning.
Acts 2:16 Instead, this is what was spoken through the prophet Joel:
Acts 2:17 And it will be in the last days, says God, that I will pour out my Breath on all people; then your sons and your daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams.
Acts 2:18 I will even pour out my Breath on my slaves in those days, both men and women and they will prophesy.
Acts 2:19 I will give marvels in the sky above and signs on the land below: blood and fire and a cloud of smoke.
Acts 2:20 The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes.
Acts 2:21 Then everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be rescued.
Acts 2:22 “Fellow Israelites, listen to these words: This Jesus of Nazareth was a man supported with evidence to you by God with miracles, marvels, and signs that God did among you through him, just as you yourselves know.
Acts 2:23 Although he was given over according to God’s determined plan and foreknowledge, with lawless hands you took him out – fastening him to a cross.
Acts 2:24 God got him up, removing the birth pangs of death, since he was incapable of being held in its grasp.
Acts 2:25 You see, David says about him: I saw the Lord ever before me; because he is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.
Acts 2:26 Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices. Moreover, my flesh will rest in hope,
Acts 2:27 because you will not leave my throat behind in Hades nor allow your devout one to see decay.
Acts 2:28 You have revealed the paths of life to me; you will fill me with gladness in your presence.
Acts 2:29 “Brothers and sisters, I can confidently speak to you about the patriarch David: He is both dead and buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.
Acts 2:30 Since he was a prophet, he knew that God had sworn an oath to him to seat the product of his loins on his throne.
Acts 2:31 Seeing what was to come, he spoke concerning the resurrection of the Messiah: He was not left behind in Hades, and his flesh did not experience decay.
Acts 2:32 “God got this Jesus up; we are all testifiers of this.
Acts 2:33 Therefore, since he has been exalted to the right hand of God and has received from the Father the promised Sacred Breath, he has poured out what you both see and hear.
Acts 2:34 You see, it was not David who ascended into the sky, but he himself says: The Lord declared to my Lord, ‘Sit at my right hand
Acts 2:35 until I make your enemies your footstool.’
Acts 2:36 “Therefore let all the house of Israel know with certainty that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Messiah.”
Acts 2:37 When they heard this, they were pierced to the heart and said to Peter and the rest of the missionaries: “Brothers, what should we do?”
Acts 2:38 Peter replied, “Seriously change your mind and be baptized, each of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your mistakes, and you will receive the gift of the Sacred Breath.
Acts 2:39 For the promise is for you and for your children, and for all who are far off, as many as the Lord our God will call for.”
Acts 2:40 With many other words he testified and strongly urged them, saying, “Be rescued from this corrupt generation!”
Acts 2:41 So those who accepted his message were baptized, and that day about three thousand throats were added to them.

a God thing

As I said yesterday, the speaking in tongues part of the miracle of Pentecost was the window dressing. It was the mass evangelism that was the major miracle. Peter’s first job as evangelist was to show that this amazing incident was not the result of an alcoholic binge. The people were not intoxicated. It was a God thing.

But how do you know if a religious experience you are having is a God thing, or something else? This passage gives us some clues to look for.

First, the Bible had predicted the event (16-21).

Second, Jesus Christ was the reason for the event (22-36).

Third, personal repentance was a result of the event (37-38).

Finally, church growth was a result of the event (39-41).

Lord, give us the discernment to recognize when you are doing something, and the courage to make ourselves part of what you are doing.

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window dressing

Posted on July 14, 2020 by Jefferson Vann
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window dressing

Acts 2:1-13 (JDV)

Acts 2:1 When the day of Pentecost was in progress, they were all together at the same place.
Acts 2:2 Suddenly a sound like that of a violent rushing wind came from the sky, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.
Acts 2:3 They saw tongues like fire that divided up and sat on each one of them.
Acts 2:4 Then they were all filled with the Sacred Breath and began to speak with other languages, as the Breath enabled them.
Acts 2:5 Now there were Jews residing in Jerusalem, devout people from every nation under the sky.
Acts 2:6 When this sound happened, a crowd came together and was in uproar because each one heard them speaking in his own dialect.
Acts 2:7 They were astounded and amazed, saying, “Notice, aren’t all these who are speaking Galileans?
Acts 2:8 How is it that each of us can hear them in our own native dialect?
Acts 2:9 Parthians, Medes, Elamites; those who reside in Mesopotamia, in Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,
Acts 2:10 Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene; visitors from Rome (both Jews and converts),
Acts 2:11 Cretans and Arabs – we hear them declaring the magnificent acts of God in our own languages.”
Acts 2:12 They were all astounded and perplexed, saying to one another, “What does this mean?”
Acts 2:13 But some sneered and said, “They’re drunk on new wine.”

window dressing

Lots of people think that if we just open ourselves up to let God speak through us in unknown languages we will have an outbreak of evangelism and revival just like what happened here. But the rest of the book of Acts does not confirm that assumption. It was not the speaking in tongues in particular that was the lasting miracle of Pentecost. It was the response to Peter’s gospel message. The speaking in tongues was the window dressing that drew the crowds to the store window.

Notice the process as Luke describes it in the context.

First, the believers united in prayer as they waited on God to move (1:1-14)

Second, the believers made sure they had adequate leadership for the coming increase in their numbers (1:15-26).

Third, God made the move by his miraculous provision!

Jesus had told his disciples that he would make them fishers of men. He showed them how it was done. It would involve a long time of waiting and trusting, and preparing for the catch, then in a burst of movement, the net would drop down where he indicated — and then the big catch. That is exactly what happened at Pentecost.

Lord, get us ready for the next big catch!

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filling the void

Posted on July 13, 2020 by Jefferson Vann
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filling the void

Acts 1:12-26 (JDV)

Acts 1:12 Then they returned to Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, which is near Jerusalem – a Sabbath day’s trip away.
Acts 1:13 When they arrived, they went to the room upstairs where they were staying: Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.
Acts 1:14 They all stayed busily engaged with the same passion in prayer, along with the women, including Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.
Acts 1:15 In those days Peter got up among the brothers – the number named who were together was about a hundred and twenty – and said:
Acts 1:16 “Men, brothers, it was necessary that the Scripture be fulfilled that the Sacred Breath through the mouth of David foretold about Judas, who became a guide to those who arrested Jesus
Acts 1:17 since he was included in our number and shared in this assistance.”
Acts 1:18 Now this man acquired a field with his unrighteous wages. He fell headfirst, his body burst open and his organs spilled out.
Acts 1:19 This became known to all the residents of Jerusalem, so that in their own dialect that field is called Hakeldama (that is, Plot of Blood).
Acts 1:20 “You see, it is written in the Book of Psalms: Let his residence become unpopulated; let no one live in it; and Let someone else take his position as overseer.
Acts 1:21 “That is why, from among the men who have accompanied us during the whole time the Lord Jesus went in and out among us –
Acts 1:22 beginning from the baptism of John until the day he was picked up from us – from among these, it is necessary that one become a testifier with us of his resurrection.”
Acts 1:23 So they proposed two: Joseph, called Barsabbas, who was also known as Justus, and Matthias.
Acts 1:24 Then they prayed, “You, Lord, who know every heart; show which of these two you have selected
Acts 1:25 to take the place in this missions assistance that Judas bypassed to go to his own place.”
Acts 1:26 Then they cast lots for them, and the lot fell to Matthias and he was added to the eleven missionaries.

filling the void

How does a congregation or ministry fill the void when they need new leadership? There are some insights we can glean from this text:

First, bathe the process of seeking new leadership in prayer. Don’t just hope for the best, pray for God’s best (13-14).

Secondly, look for candidates who meet the scriptural qualifications (20, 25).

Thirdly, ask God for guidance in making the right choice, then make the choice, trusting that God has answered your prayer. (23-26).

Lord, send us leaders who will help us love and serve you.

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focus

Posted on July 12, 2020 by Jefferson Vann
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focus

Acts 1:6-11 (JDV)

Acts 1:6 So when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, are you restoring the kingdom to Israel at this time?”
Acts 1:7 But he said to them, “It is not for you to know times or periods that the Father has set by his own right.
Acts 1:8 But you will receive power when the Sacred Breath has come on you, and you will be my testifiers in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the land.”
Acts 1:9 After he had said this, he was lifted up as they were watching, and a cloud took him up away from their sight.
Acts 1:10 While he was going, they were gazing into the sky, they noticed that two men in shining clothes had stood by them.
Acts 1:11 And these said, ” Galilean men, why have you stood looking up into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been picked up from you into the sky, will come in the same way that you have seen him going into the sky.”

focus

I have a pair of glasses, and I use them to see more clearly. I’m okay when I am looking at a book, or a computer screen, but when I try to see into the distance, everything is out of focus. It’s really important that I wear my glasses when I’m driving — otherwise I am liable to miss something important.

The believers in Jerusalem at the time of Jesus’ ascension were getting out of focus.

First, they started focusing on where they were in prophetic history. They asked the Lord whether theirs was the time of full messianic expectation. That is logical, because they had discovered that Jesus was the Messiah. They naturally thought that the next thing to happen in history was the overthrow of Rome and the establishment of the messianic kingdom.

But Jesus told them that they were out of focus. They were concentrating on the wrong expectation.

Later, after Jesus ascended, the two divine messengers pointed out to the believers that they were out of focus again. They were so busy sky-gazing that they were wasting time. The messengers told them that Christ was going to come again, visibly and gloriously, just like he ascended. But that second coming was not supposed to be their focus either!

The proper focus for believers today is the mission we were called to complete. We need to get our eyes off the sky, and focus on reaching all the nations on the land. There is work to do, so we have to stay focused.

Lord, we get out of focus so easily. Wake us up, and turn us back to the mission you called us to complete.

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three foundations for gospel ministry

Posted on July 11, 2020 by Jefferson Vann
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three foundations for gospel ministry

Acts 1:1-5 (JDV)

Acts 1:1 I constructed the first guidebook, Theophilus, to all that Jesus began to do and teach
Acts 1:2 up to the day he was picked up, after he had given instructions through the Sacred Breath to the missionaries he had selected.
Acts 1:3 After he had endured his crucifixion, he also presented himself alive to them by many convincing validating evidences, appearing to them over a period of forty days and telling the things about the kingdom of God.
Acts 1:4 While he was sharing salt with them, he directed them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait for the Father’s promise. “Which,” he said, “you have heard about from me;
Acts 1:5 because John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Sacred Breath in a few days.”

three foundations for gospel ministry

There are three foundations for gospel ministry, and these three foundations correspond to the three members of the divine trinity.

First, there is the Father’s promise (4). The reason the Father promised that the Holy Spirit would come to the church on Pentecost is that he had a plan, and his plan required that his people share the message about his Son with the power of his Holy Spirit.

Secondly, there is the Son’s incomplete work. Note that Luke says his first book was about all that Jesus began to do and teach (1). The Gospel of Luke records the completion of some of Jesus’ work. He completed the work of dying on the cross as our substitute and Savior. He completed the work of proving that his resurrection was genuine. He completed the work of teaching all we need to know about the kingdom of God — present and future. We have those teachings in the Gospels.

Thirdly, there is one work that Jesus left undone. He intentionally left that work for us — his church. That is the work of making disciples of all nations. It is the work of being testifiers for him (1:8).

That is why there is a third foundation for gospel ministry. That foundation is the empowerment that came to us when the Holy Spirit came down at Pentecost. Jesus instructed his church to wait for the Holy Spirit to come.

He did not come to reconcile us to the Father. God had already reconciled us by his grace.
He did not come to sacrifice his life for our sins. Jesus had done that by his death on the cross.
The Holy Spirit came to turn Christ’s church into gospel evangelists!

Holy Spirit, we invite you to do a work in our lives that enables us to proclaim the gospel of Christ, and lead our community to him.

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