{"id":137,"date":"2011-08-11T01:01:20","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T08:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rom120.com\/blog1\/?p=137"},"modified":"2011-08-05T10:46:56","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T17:46:56","slug":"church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rom120.com\/blog1\/2011\/08\/11\/church\/","title":{"rendered":"Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Church, what should it look like?\u00a0 Lets take a look at the start of the church.<\/p>\n<p>Acts 2:42 And they continued steadfastly in the apostles\u2019 doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in prayers.<\/p>\n<p>From this verse 4 things stand out.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Continued steadfastly in the apostles doctrine&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">They studied the teachings of the Apostles, in other words they studied God&#8217;s Word.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fellowship&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Fellowship, understanding each other and needs.\u00a0 Spending time with fellow believers is\u00a0 important.\u00a0 We are not perfect (thus the reason for Christ) but we do need to fellowship together.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Breaking of Bread&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Communion!\u00a0 When the church gathered in the New Testament times the wold partake in communion.\u00a0 This too should be an important part of our fellowship today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Prayers&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Praying for fellow believers.\u00a0 Seeking God&#8217;s guidance.\u00a0 See John 17:1-16 as an example of prayer.<\/p>\n<p>These are important things our church should be doing today, is your church doing this every Sunday?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Church, what should it look like?\u00a0 Lets take a look at the start of the church. Acts 2:42 And they continued steadfastly in the apostles\u2019 doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in prayers. From this verse 4 <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rom120.com\/blog1\/2011\/08\/11\/church\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rom120.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rom120.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rom120.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rom120.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rom120.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rom120.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139,"href":"https:\/\/rom120.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rom120.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rom120.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rom120.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}