Early influences…

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This month during the MANIFESTO series, we’re revisiting the “WHY” and the “What” of actionchurch.  We’re remembering just WHY we began as a church…and WHAT we were trying to accomplish then…and still working toward today.   Although we probably won’t ever get around to discussing it on a Sunday, there is actually a quote from C.H. Spurgeon that so influenced the “WHY” of what actionchurch should become, that it is included in our original document.

“The man of God should imitate his Master in this; he should be mighty both in the word of his doctrine and in the deed of his example, and mightiest, if possible, in the second. It is remarkable that the only church history we have is, ‘The Acts of the apostles.’ The Holy Spirit has not preserved their sermons…

We have no books of the resolutions of the apostles; when we hold our church-meetings we record our minutes and resolutions, but the Holy Spirit only puts down the ‘acts.’ Our acts should be such as to bear recording, for recorded they will be. We must live as under the more immediate eye of God, and as in the blaze of the all-revealing day.”

C.H. Spurgeon

THAT is why we became known as  actionchurch…

 

 

(There might ALSO have possibly been a little bit of influence from the great country theologian Toby Keith…”A little less talk and a lot more action”.  But including his wise lyrics in the manifesto wouldn’t have seemed nearly as intellectual :-) -Don

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