create community

“All the believers were together and had everything in common.”
[Acts 2: 44]

•   What made the early Church so powerful, so distinct from the people around it and so on fire for sharing the Good News of Jesus? Answer: the Holy Spirit.This newborn church had just been filled with a power that had never been experienced amongst a community of people before. Yes, the Holy Spirit was present at creation and had spoken through individuals such as the prophets throughout the Old Testament, but now, NOW, the Church had been born!

•   Read the whole of Acts 2 and you’ll be so inspired to share your faith. When you gave your life to Jesus you were given the Holy Spirit as a deposit, to show that you’ll one day inherit eternal life [see Ephesians 1: 13-14] but also to show you how to live out the life of following Jesus now, in this life.

•   You and your Christian mates can be community together. If you’re not doing much at school or outside of church to share your faith, then start today! It’s not hard; just follow the pattern of the New Testament Church in Acts 2. Meet together, pray, share things with each other and then share your faith with your non-Christian mates. Then, sit back and watch the Holy Spirit do what only He can do - change people’s lives.

•   But, as Paul says in 1 Peter 3: 15, “...Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have.” Meeting, Praying, sharing, and then speaking out will raise a lot of questions in peoples' minds, so be prepared to answer them! You don't have to be an expert theologian, simply an honest messenger of the Hope you've received.

•   Be brave! As Revolutionaries, you CAN, with your Christian mates create a community in your school or college, or anywhere else for that matter! It doesn’t have to be at church on a Sunday. Remember, you ARE the Church. You and your mates represent Jesus, so go for it this week and get praying, sharing and meeting with each other, and witnessing, testifying and speaking out together.