Book of Acts Church Core Ministries
The book of Acts Church Core Ministries emphasize the key revival and evangelism fundamental principles for reaching, reaping, and retaining a mega harvest of souls. Revival is the Lord working in the church; evangelism is the church working for the Lord. Revival is God pleading with believers: “Get involved in the business of My Kingdom.” Evangelism is an awakened church pleading with sinners: “Come to Jesus Christ and be saved.”
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Book of Acts Church Core Ministries and Supernatural Results
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Just a few verses down from Peter's message of salvation in Acts chapter two, the three core ministries of the church are identified along with the outstanding results: "Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls. And they continued steadfastly in the Apostles' Doctrine and Fellowship, and in Breaking of Bread, and in Prayers. Many wonders and signs were done by the apostles. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved" (Acts 2:41, 42, 47). The results of the very first miracle recorded in Acts chapter 3, after the ascension of Jesus, was that 5,000 men believed: “Many of them which heard the word believed; and the number of the men was about five thousand.” Acts 4:4
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The seminars listed below are provided to emphasize, elevate, and expand the three core ministries of the church identified in the book of Acts model for individual spiritual growth and corporate church growth. For an overview of the three seminars listed below click on:
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Spiritual Growth of the Christian: More emphasis should be placed on building the individual vs. building the church, since Church growth is directly related to the spiritual growth of its' members. For there to be an apostolic church, there must be an apostolic man. Spiritual growth of the members will result in numerical growth of the church, since the spiritual growth cycle includes the dominion role of ministering to the needs of others. The spiritual growth cycle includes:
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Relationship with God (upward focus)
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Transformation of the inner man (inward focus)
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Dominion in the harvest field and battlefield (outward focus).
“How is your church doing with discipleship? Not just how many new people were baptized or even how many new
converts graduated a six-week course last year. But how are all church members growing spiritually and digging
deeper into God’s Word year after year? It can be a daunting task for church leaders to drive this ongoing
discipleship responsibility, but it is necessary for continued spiritual growth.” (quote from a religious magazine)
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The vision is for a breakthrough that will double the church numerically and spiritually at the individual and corporate levels.
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Multimedia is used in these teaching and training presentations. PowerPoint charts are used to provide a graphic image of a spiritual concept as a model or "strawman" to initiate and facilitate understanding and discussion of intangible biblical concepts, that are difficult to describe or understand (e.g. "relationship with God", "transformation of the inner man."
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Website Resources: To maximize the use of the resources provided by this website the following options are available:
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The materials are available to those who would like to conduct any of these seminars in their churches or teach any of the dozens of other foundational biblical principles addressed in these books and PowerPoint charts. Also I will be available remotely, as needed, to assist in identifying other relevant material in these books and planning for the seminar, etc.
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If a seminar format is not appropriate at this time, regular or special service times may be scheduled. The subjects will continue to focus on the basic biblical principles of individual and corporate church growth.
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All of the author's books and PowerPoint charts are available for downloading free of charge by going to the webpage, "Books Published".