The Blueprint

What would it look like if a church stopped trying to improve on God's design and simply returned to it?

In Week 3 of the Built series, Pastor Kevin Cox takes the congregation deep into Acts 2:42–47 — the most concentrated portrait of the early church found anywhere in Scripture. In one passage, Luke gives us four devotions that defined the first Christian community: the apostles' teaching, fellowship, the breaking of bread, and prayer. These were not four programs running in parallel. They were four expressions of a single reality — a Spirit-filled community living in wholehearted surrender to its Head.

This message works through the Greek word proskartereo — the word translated "devoted" — and what it reveals about the difference between casual church attendance and genuine discipleship. It examines what koinonia actually means and why you can attend a small group for years and still feel completely unknown. It unpacks the dual meaning of the breaking of bread and the word anamnesis — the active, present-tense remembrance that makes communion far more than a ritual. And it traces the fruit that followed these four devotions in Acts 2:43–47: awe, radical generosity, favor with the city, and the Lord adding to their number daily.

The blueprint has not been updated. The question is whether we are willing to build by it.