Churchology: The Church That Just Won’t Quit // Jason King

Faith

The Church That Just Won’t Quit

James 1:2-4 (NIV)

“Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.”

Acts 3:7-8 (NIV)

“Taking him by the right hand, he helped him up, and instantly the man’s feet and ankles became strong. He jumped to his feet and began to walk. Then he went with them into the temple courts, walking and jumping, and praising God.”

Acts 4:7 (NIV)

“By what power or what name did you do this?”

Acts 4:10 (NIV)

“Whom you crucified, but whom God raised from the dead.”

Acts 4:12 (NIV)

“Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other Name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.”

Acts 4:13 (NIV)

“When they saw the courage of Peter and John and realized that they were unschooled, ordinary men, they were astonished and they took note that these men had been with Jesus.”

Acts 4:14 (NIV)

“But since they could see the man who had been healed standing there with them, there was nothing they could say.”

Acts 4:18 (NIV)

“Then they called them in again and commanded them not to speak or teach at all in the Name of Jesus.”

Acts 4:19-20 (BSB)

“Judge for yourselves whether it is right in God’s sight to obey you instead of God. (We have made our choice.) We cannot help (ourselves from) speaking about what we have seen and heard.”

Acts 4:24 (NIV)

“‘Sovereign Lord,’ they said, ‘You made the heavens and the earth and the sea, and everything in them.’”

Acts 4:25-27 (NIV)

“You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of your servant, our father David: ‘Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth rise up and the rulers band together against the Lord and against His Anointed One.’ Indeed Herod and Pontius Pilate met together with the Gentiles and the people of Israel in this city to conspire against Your Holy Servant Jesus, whom You anointed.”

Acts 4:28 (NIV)

“They did what Your power and will had decided beforehand should happen.”

Acts 4:29 (NIV)

“Now Lord, consider their threats and enable Your servants to speak Your Word with great boldness.”

Acts 4:30 (NIV)

“Stretch out Your hand to heal and perform signs and wonders through the Name of Your Holy Servant Jesus.”

Acts 4:31 (NIV)

“After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the Word of God boldly.”

Matthew 16:18 (ESV)

“I will build My Church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it.”