Writing the Next Chapter of Acts 29

Sep 27, 2026

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60s
#GospelHope
“In it, we have the gospel. We have the story of our creator reaching out to us, taking on flesh, walking amongst us, experiencing life with us, loving, weeping, caring, showing kindness, instructing, informing, teaching, encouraging, and laying down his life as a sacrifice for our sins, rising again on the third day to show victory over sin and death in the grave, and then welcoming us into His work. His work is sharing what we have seen and witnessed and heard to a lost and dying world.”
46s
#GreatCommission
“The these are these are not or this is not the great suggestion. This is our commission. This is our commandment. This is what we give our life to for the purpose and the cause of the gospel. And Jesus didn't said when you feel led to. He didn't say if it fits your schedule. He doesn't say if you can afford it or not. He doesn't say if it's convenient. He says, go and do it. This is our responsibility. This is what we are to do. Acts at Acts 29, church does not treat the great commission as optional or secondary or when it fits.”
53s
#SpiritLed
“For if we're not sensitive to the spirit, we will miss the open doors, the open doors right in front of us. We will miss where that conversation at work during break could have gone, where we where we miss where that conversation with that friend, with that neighbor could have gone, where we miss the needs in our neighborhood, when we miss an unexpected encounter with God because we're too busy overthinking of other things or the noise around us is distracting us. And Acts 29 church lives with holy urgency and spirit led awareness, seizing every opportunity that God gives us.”
39s
#FaithInAction
“This is one of the greatest dangers in the church. The more we show up and hear the word without allowing it to change us, the more accustomed we become to hearing, the more comfortable we get in our faith, the less convicted we feel to live it out. The more blinded we become to the lostness around us, and the less urgency we have regarding evangelism.”
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#Acts29Movement
“There needed to be a cliffhanger because we are part of an ongoing movement where every church, every missionary, every pastor, every member, every evangelist, every gospel conversation is a continuation of the book of Acts. In fact, I believe our church, First Baptist Church of Mableton, has a responsibility too and is continuing to write out the book of Acts with everything that we do. Our work isn't finished. We have history, but we also have a present, and we have a future. We have a next generation. We have a generation today to reach and another generation after that. We must continue to write out Acts 29 and never stop adding to it.”
39s
#LiveByFaith
“Every morning that you get up, you could be writing the next part of Acts 29, every morning. But the question that we have to ask is is does the verse that we're writing in Acts 29, does our life look anything like the first 28 chapters of Acts of the book of Acts? Do our lives reflect the same faith that the church in all of Acts reflect?”
80s
#FinishTheRace
“We need to be re we need to remain committed to finishing our race. However or elderly we might feel we are. There's still the next soul. There's still a neighbor who is lost. There is still another page to be written. And Acts 29 church recognizes that even if if if they feel like they have finished writing their page and there's no more room, then you buy another sheet of paper and you keep writing. We cannot hang on to the accolades of the past. We can be grateful and thankful for them and use them as motivation to keep on pressing on today. To do the work of the gospel today, we need to remain committed to finishing the race, to keep pinning, to keep writing, to keep loving, to keep praying, to keep, to keep witnessing, to keep going.”
52s
#NoBlankPages
“When we drift from our great commission, this is what you get, a blank page. There's nothing to inspire, nothing to inspire the next generation, nothing that they look back to and say. I remember when that person stood up in a church business meeting 20 ago, thirty years ago and said, we're off course. We're not giving as we ought to. We are not sharing as we're supposed to. We are not evangelizing. We are not in our community. We need to do something about it, and the church did something about it. Those are the inspirational words that make up Acts 29.”
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