Acts… Still!

In the month of April, our Bible reading plan has been looking at the early Christian Church as recorded in the book of Acts.  (Click here to view our April reading plan.)  These are the glory days of Christianity and the Church.  Every passage is a new miracle, a powerful conversion, or a courageous story.  Sometimes I wonder why it doesn’t seem to be like that anymore.  As exciting and miraculous as those early days were, the Christian life today doesn’t seem to measure up.  By comparison, things feel rather mundane.  Wouldn’t it be awesome if the experience of those early Christians were still ours today?  

But consider this: Acts is the history of the Church over a 30-year period.  It is 30 years of miracles compressed into 28 chapters.  What if you took the last 30 years of Ferrysburg Community Church and compressed them down to about an hour-and-a-half of reading?  Think of all the amazing healings and answered prayers.  Think of all the new believers and the lives that have been touched since the mid 90s.  Our 30-year history may not read exactly like Acts.  But I suspect it wouldn’t be far off.  And this goes for most other churches too.  God is still at work - “Acts-style” - among his people.  He is still powerful, still healing, still changing lives.