Practice Gathering: Breaking of Bread (Sharing Meals)
Pastor Andrew Schmidt continues a new sermon series called, “Practice Gathering”. This series focuses on Acts 2:42: “They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.” This week focuses on how the early Christians in Acts devoted themselves to gathering together for the purpose of sharing meals with one another. Andrew focuses on what it means to have have “food in the name of Jesus”.
Sermon begins at about 22 minutes.
Audio:
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Scripture References:
Luke 5:27-39, 7:36-50, 10:38-42, 11:37-52, 14:1-24, 19:1-27, 22:7-38, 24:28-49
Things To Remember:
When the church was birthed in Acts followers of Jesus met together every day to keep their relationship with God vibrant.
They devoted themselves to the breaking of bread (Acts 2:42) and this included eating together with glad and sincere hearts (Acts 2:46).
There are many ways that we can do "food in the Name of Jesus".
We can talk about God and his ways over food, just like Jesus did (see Luke 5:27-39, 7:36-50, 10:38-42, 11:37-52, 14:1-24, 19:1-27, 22:7-38, 24:28-49).
We can share life with people over food and help cultivate a sense of family with our brothers and sisters in Christ.
We can share food with those who need it or as an act of love to those who are hurting.
We can pray before or after meals including in ways that would specifically bless those with us at the table.
We can do what the disciples did in the feeding of the 5000 story: offer what we have to Jesus, ask Him to bless it, then watch him multiply the blessing through us as we share it with others.
