Great Mature Faith

.”  He stuttered and stammered and said, “I can’t name anybody.”  I said, “Well, don’t ever tell me or anyone else that you need more theology if you are not doing the ABC’s of the faith.”  So do you seize those opportunities, because this guy who thought he had this great mature faith was, on a scale of one to ten, probably about a one or a two. Question three, Q3: Are you committed to the basic Christian core values?  What’s that?  Do you lead a moral life?  Do you understand your life as a life of worship?  Do you come to FellowshipChurch Ed Young  worshipping and not just to worship?  If you come here just to worship, you are missing the boat.  Worship should transcend everything we do in our lives.  We should worship in our dating life, worship in our marriage, worship as we treat our children certain ways.  Everything is worship.  Do you give?  The Bible says straight up, ten per cent off of the top of everything we make should go to the local church.  Simple stuff.

Question four:  Are you involved in a ministry?  That’s a Biblical thing.  Are you involved in a ministry?  Are you?  We have 5200 people involved in a Ed Young Ministry position who work at least once a month here at Fellowship Church.  That’s unbelievable.  Last weekend, Doris Scoggins, our statistician, told me we had 21,035 people that showed up here at Fellowship Church.  The awesome thing about it was we were not expecting that many people.  But the cool thing about it was, did you see how the parkers and the greeters, and the hospitality folks and the ushers worked and the security people?  Unbelievable. 

Walking is Fellowship

Here is what the Bible says about these things.  Acts 2:42.   “They devoted themselves….”  They got serious about it.  They devoted themselves like Tiger Woods has devoted himself to golf.  “They devoted themselves to teaching, to prayer and to walking and breaking of bread.”  Teaching is feeding or nutrition.  Prayer is talking and communicating to God.  Fellowship Church Grapevine tells us that walking is fellowship.  Before we explain all these things, let me tell you what these three thousand infants did.  They were so into Peter’s words that they changed the world because of their commitment.  People saw what was going on in the church, saw their maturity.  Other rebirths occurred because of their commitment.  The church was giving like it had never given before.  Worship was flowing like it never had before.  Lives were being changed.  People were being healed.  It was phenomenal.  Because these three thousand infants obeyed this infant information, Christianity spread throughout the Roman empire and ultimately throughout the world.  We would not be here today in Irving, TX had it not been for those three thousand infants.    Now is that exciting or what?

Here is what Peter did.  He said that he was not going to cower, that he wouldn’t sugar coat the message.  He said he would tell them what to do.  So for the rest of this message, I want to talk to the infants here, those who have recently become Christians.  Or maybe you became a Christian five years ago but for some reason, you have your personal relationship kind of frozen or on pause.  I want to talk to you and challenge you with the same words Peter used.  Those three thousand infants rocked their world in AD33.  Ed Young Pastor think that many infants here in this nursery can rock the world for the Lord Jesus Christ.

1.  Concentrate on feeding or you could say nutrition, if you want to use a 90s word.  The Word is our food.  There are three types of food that we need to concentrate on.  Infants, listen to me.  First, concentrate on public teaching.  The Bible says that something supernatural happens when Christians come together for a public feeding.