It is God's desire to bless His people. Sometimes we must fight for the blessing!

Something significant takes place in the community of Ephesus in chapter 19. The disciples are filled with the Holy Spirit! (Acts 19:1-7). Paul took these 12 disciples (v7) and trained them so that they could disciple other believers! (By the way…That is reproduction that I talked about two weeks ago!) Paul and this small band of disciples began sharing Christ and the community was transformed…it was changed. So much so that that there was riot!

This morning, I want to talk to you about being COMMITTED TO REPRODUCTION! Now, before you get scared and think about I am going to start talking about making babies…just relax. The kind of reproduction I want to talk about is making copies. I want you to think of copy machine. In the resource room we have a copy machine. We lay our original copy on the glass and push a button and it makes an exact copy of the original. It reproduces the original! It does not add extra words…it does not add extra lines. It simply reproduces the original. That is what we are talking about today! Reproducing the life of Christ in each person. And…and…reproducing a church that is like the church in the book of Acts! We want to be that church…and we want to plant a church like that!

This morning, I want to talk to you about being COMMITTED TO COMPASSION! Compassion means to care of, to have sympathy, and to have empathy! The book of Acts describes a church that is Spirit-empowered! It is a supernatural community! It is a compassionate community! We see that in Acts 2:41-47, Acts 4:32-37 and we see it in our passage today in Acts 6:1-7!