Outline for a sermon preached June 25, 2017, entitled “Holy Spirit Blueprint.”

INTRODUCTION

  1. TEXT: Acts 6:1-7.
  2. What do we do now?
  3. God gave Moses blueprints for the tabernacle.
    1. Hebrews 8:5.
  4. God gave David blueprints for the temple.
    1. 1 Chronicles 28:10-12.
  5. Why didn’t God give the disciples a blueprint for the church?

OUTLINE

  1. The church was not a physical entity.
    1. The church would not be confined by natural law.
    2. 1 Peter 2:5.
    3. The church is a body of believers (John 18:36).
    4. The work of Jesus Christ spills over every human barrier.
  2. The church was to be worldwide.
    1. The church would not be confined by culture.
    2. Mark 16:15.
    3. The work of Jesus Christ spills over every social barrier.
    4. We must have the evangelism mentality.
    5. 1 Corinthians 9:19-23.
  3. The church was to function till the end of time.
    1. The church would not be confined by trends.
    2. Only God is timeless. Everything else becomes dated.
    3. There are things which are generational and timeless.
    4. There are things which are for a generation and for a time.
  4. The Holy Spirit Blueprint.
    1. God intended to preserve the process and not the conclusion.
    2. It “seemed” good to the Holy Spirit and us.
    3. The church lives in the “seems.”

CONCLUSION

  1. PRAYER.