I met a friend in a department store in Waco. We talked about church. He gushed over his new place of worship, "We go to a New Testament church. It is exciting!"
The early church was exciting. Our Lord saved three thousand at Pentecost. But wait. There was more. Not only were these early believers excited. They were also committed. They continued steadfastly and devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching, the breaking of bread, the fellowship and prayer.
Two thousand years later, the church is still devoted to these things. Faithful commitment to the apostles' teaching recorded in the New Testament still points our way forward. Devoted churches are likely exciting. But not every exciting church is devoted.
When young evangelist Billy Graham preached a crusade in London, critics complained he had set the church back 50 years in a few weeks. Graham answered, "I was trying to set it back 2,000 years."
