Worship in the Early Church

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Worship in the Early Church
WORSHIP
Third Quarter July September 2011
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INTRODUCTION

• What do you appreciate more in a preachers
  sermons? Explain your answer importance,
  reasons, etc.

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INTRODUCTION

• To what extent the stories of the Acts of the
  Apostles are a model for the current (modern)
  churches, instead of simply being, stories from
  the beginning of the church?

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INTRODUCTION

• How important is preaching as part of worship in
  the churchs life? Every worship service, should
  it include a sermon?

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INTRODUCTION

• Expected Learning
• Explain how preaching is an important component
  of worship as a method of evangelism and consider
  the posibilities of preaching as part of your
  worship

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OUTLINE
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I. AN INTEGRAL EVANGELISTIC MESSAGE
a. To an internal public Jews

• Who were the hearing public of the message of
  Peter in Jerusalem?
• Then Peter stood up with the Eleven, raised his
  voice and addressed the crowd Fellow Jews and
  all of you who live in Jerusalem, Acts 214

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I. AN INTEGRAL EVANGELISTIC MESSAGE
a. To an internal public Jews

• It was a message leading to repentance to the
  jewish people. As a result, about of three
  thousand people were baptized. They persevered
  in the doctrine and kept a life of christian
  communion

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I. AN INTEGRAL EVANGELISTIC MESSAGE
b. To an external public Gentiles

• Who were the hearing public of the message of
  Paul in Athens?
• A group of Epicurean and Stoic philosophers
  began to debate with him. Some of them asked,
  What is this babbler trying to say? Others
  remarked, He seems to be advocating foreign
  gods. Acts 1718

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I. AN INTEGRAL EVANGELISTIC MESSAGE
b. To an external public Gentiles

• Paul when speaking to the philosophers adapted
  his message to their way of thinking. He did no
  gain a big number of converts (Acts 1734), but a
  church was founded.

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I. AN INTEGRAL EVANGELISTIC MESSAGE
c. Confronted tradtitions and ways o worship

• What accusation was made to Paul when he preach
  in Corinth?
• This man, they charged, is persuading the
  people to worship God in ways contrary to the
  law Acts 1813

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I. AN INTEGRAL EVANGELISTIC MESSAGE
C. Confronted tradtitions and ways o worship

• These people were trapped in tradition and on
  ways of worship. They were clung to the law
  itself that left to see to whom the law stated.

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II. A SERVICE THROUGH GIFTS
a. Centered in love Jesus

• What is the central message of Paul to the
  Corinthians in 1 Cor 13?
• And now these three remain faith, hope and
  love. But the greatest of these is love
• 1 Cor 1313

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II. A SERVICE THROUGH GIFTS

1. Centered in love Jesus

• Paul explained that any miracolous power, any
  charismatic gift, any piety or zeal, or practiced
  gift will benefit unless the heart is full of the
  love of God

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III. A MESSAGE RISEN CHRIST
a. Certainty of our resurrection

• Why did Jesus give proofs of His resurrection to
  the apostles?
• After his suffering, he presented himself to
  them and gave many convincing proofs that he was
  alive. He appeared to them over a period of forty
  days and spoke about the kingdom of God Acts 13

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III. A MESSAGE RISEN CHRIST
a. Certainty of our resurrection

• The certainty of the resurrection gave a dynamic
  power to the message of the apostles. It is the
  base of the powerful argument of Paul about the
  certainty of the corporal resurrection in the
  kingdom of the redeemed

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CONCLUSION

• How important is the social context for worship
  and evangelism?
• What are the risks when being too contextual?

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CONCLUSION

• What have we learnt today?
• Worship in the primitive church proclaimed an
  integral evangelistic message centered in the
  service for love and eternal life and to the
  risen Jesus as the center of hope of eternal
  life.
• What can we do now with what we learned?

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CONCLUSION

• Write a sermon in which you will share some of
  the concepts of worship that impressed in the
  study of the Bible on this week and share in a
  church or with a relative. Lets pray

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• Elaborado por
• Mag. Alfredo Padilla Chávez
• Universidad Peruana Unión Centro de
  Producciones UPeU
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