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Complete Teaching Brings Complete Experience

Complete Teaching Brings Complete Experience

Complete Teaching Brings Complete Experience

by | Jun 20, 2026

Pastor Jack draws from Acts 8 to examine what he calls "complete teaching" in New Testament evangelism. He emphasizes that the early church didn't stop at salvation and water baptism, but always pressed on to the baptism of the Holy Spirit? ?a pattern demonstrated when Peter and John traveled to Samaria to pray for new believers to receive the Spirit. Pastor Jack teaches that partial instruction produces partial experience, and calls the congregation to embrace the fullness of what God offers: salvation, water baptism, and the baptism of the Holy Spirit with spiritual language.
The Message of New Testament Evangelism

The Message of New Testament Evangelism

by | Jun 20, 2026

Pastor Jack explores the story of Philip in Samaria, showing how God uses ordinary believers to advance the gospel. Drawing from Acts 8, he demonstrates that Philip was scattered by persecution, not sent as a famous evangelist? ?yet God confirmed the word with signs, wonders, and deliverance from demonic powers. Pastor Jack emphasizes that the early church preached four key elements: the Word, Christ as the anointed King, the kingdom of God, and the authority of Jesus' name, calling the church to expect God's miracle-working power today.
New Testament Evangelism

New Testament Evangelism

by | Jun 20, 2026

Pastor Jack explores the birth of New Testament evangelism in the early church, drawing from Acts 8 where persecution scatters believers into Samaria. He teaches that true evangelism emerges not from human engineering or programmatic effort, but from God's sovereign work in believers who are grounded in worship, fellowship, and the Word. Rather than anxiously planning witness strategies, Pastor Jack encourages believers to pursue the Acts 2 pattern of devotion to teaching, fellowship, breaking of bread, and prayer? ?from which fruitful witness naturally flows.
Men Who Shape History

Men Who Shape History

by | Jun 20, 2026

In this message, Pastor Jack traces the development of the Church on the Way, drawing powerful parallels to the New Testament church at Antioch. He shares how God has raised up ministries from their congregation? ?like the Come Together musical and Pat Boone's outreach? ?that have become known worldwide, fulfilling God's word that ministries would go out from them better known than the church itself. Pastor Jack also describes a season of personal seeking and testing regarding possible relocation to Reno, and how God used this to free him from dependence on the church's blessing rather than on Christ Himself, leading to new directives for expanding ministry and raising up elders.
Men Who Shape History

Men Who Shape History

by | Jun 20, 2026

Pastor Jack teaches on Stephen, the first martyr of the early church, showing how God takes ordinary men and develops them into history-shapers. Drawing from Acts 6:8 through 8:4, Pastor Jack emphasizes that Stephen was not merely a martyr but a man of honest report, full of the Holy Spirit, who faithfully served in practical ministry before miracles began flowing through his life. He challenges the men of the congregation to become "glory men" ? ? born again, Spirit-filled believers who mature in wisdom and love, allowing God to deeply mark them for kingdom purposes.
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