Birmingham City Church
Sermons, Uproar, Kingdom Part 3: Fellowship
A very warm welcome to BCC! We invite you to join us this Sunday for our Sunday services in-person at 9am, 11.15am & 6:30pm and also online at 11:15am. Our services feature live worship and a message from Pastor Gregg entitled 'Fellowship' from our series on the book of Acts called 'Sermons, Uproar, Kingdom'. If you'd like to access our sermon notes and passages for this week, please scroll down. Feel free to add and save your own notes and thoughts for future reference.
Locations & Times
Birmingham City Church
Parade, Birmingham B1 3QQ, UK
Sunday 9:00 AM
Sunday 11:15 AM
Sunday 6:30 PM
Author Bill Hybels said this: ‘Nothing on earth has greater potential to change lives and carry out His kingdom work in your community, than your local church. There is nothing like the local church when its working right. It’ beauty is indescribable. It’s power is breath taking. It’s potential unlimited. No other organisation on earth is like the church. Nothing comes close.’
Illustration - Pass the parcel.
4 things: Teaching, fellowship, breaking of bread and prayer
4 things: Teaching, fellowship, breaking of bread and prayer
1. WE GATHER AROUND GOD’S WORD.
We’re not brought together because we’re all from the same country or speak the same languages. It’s not our hobbies or interests or nationalities or anything else that unites us except for Christ Jesus and his Word.
We’re not brought together because we’re all from the same country or speak the same languages. It’s not our hobbies or interests or nationalities or anything else that unites us except for Christ Jesus and his Word.
2. WE DO LIFE TOGETHER.
The church is not a building or a place but a fellowship—people doing: life together. This word for “fellowship” in v42 is the Greek word “koinonia.” It most commonly means “fellowship, communion, participation, sharing.”
The church is not a building or a place but a fellowship—people doing: life together. This word for “fellowship” in v42 is the Greek word “koinonia.” It most commonly means “fellowship, communion, participation, sharing.”
'WE OR ME' illustration.
A call to live counter-culturally from the world.
A call to live counter-culturally from the world.
3. WE SHARE MEALS AND TAKE COMMUNION.
The early church would eat together and celebrate the Lord’s Supper as part of the meal. It was a continued time of fellowship, focused around Christ, aided by food.
The early church would eat together and celebrate the Lord’s Supper as part of the meal. It was a continued time of fellowship, focused around Christ, aided by food.
4. WE PRAY TOGETHER.
These early Christians came together to pray.
We as the Church need not just have our own personal prayer life but pray together. And pray for one another.
These early Christians came together to pray.
We as the Church need not just have our own personal prayer life but pray together. And pray for one another.
1. Are you present or participating?
2. Do you consume or contribute?
3. Compete or complete?
4. Are we divided or devoted?
2. Do you consume or contribute?
3. Compete or complete?
4. Are we divided or devoted?
THE RESULTS: GROWTH!
Every day more and more people are coming to faith in Christ and joining the church family.
The result of this church family studying the Scriptures together, doing life together, sharing meals and communion together, and praying together is there’s something so unique, distinct, and wonderful about them that others can’t help but come to faith in Christ.
Every day more and more people are coming to faith in Christ and joining the church family.
The result of this church family studying the Scriptures together, doing life together, sharing meals and communion together, and praying together is there’s something so unique, distinct, and wonderful about them that others can’t help but come to faith in Christ.
Ephesians 2:22
IN CHRIST YOU ALSO ARE BEING BUILT TOGETHER INTO A PLACE FOR GOD TO LIVE BY THE SPIRIT
IN CHRIST YOU ALSO ARE BEING BUILT TOGETHER INTO A PLACE FOR GOD TO LIVE BY THE SPIRIT