Lord's New Way and His Ministry Today, The
The Lord needs a new way because Christianity presents us something different from what is revealed in the New Testament. Acts 2:46 and 5:42 show us that in the early days the church met from house to house. In Greek this means that they met according to the houses. Each and every house was a meeting place. This practice is absolutely different from today’s practice in Christianity. In these home meetings, they did three basic things: (1) They broke bread to remember the Lord. (2) They preached Christ as the gospel, as the good news. That means they preached the gospel to save sinners, to bring sinners to the Lord. (3) They also taught. No doubt, they taught what the Lord Jesus had taught the disciples. In Matthew 28 the Lord charged His disciples to go and disciple the nations and teach them whatever they had been taught (vv. 18-20). In the home meetings these three things were going on—the breaking of bread, preaching the gospel to save sinners, and teaching the believers so that they might know what God’s economy is.
