E☧ansion: A study through Acts
Cross Collective
Gospel. Family. Mission.
The biblical church is the primary family. This is very counter intuitive! Typically, when we think family we think about the natural relations between people who have the same blood flowing through their veins. That's right. It's perfectly natural to experience family with people you've grown up with and are actually related to.
However, it's entirely supernatural to experience the church as the blood bought family that Christ paid the ultimate price to create and unite!
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Location: San Diego, CA, United States
Home Church Gathering: Mira Mesa
Studying Acts 7:44-60
Monday, Feb 1, 2016, 07:00 PM
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Home Church Gathering: College Area
Studying Acts 7:44-60
Friday, Feb 5, 2016, 06:00 PM
6025 Estelle Street, San Diego, CA, United States
Study on Acts 7:44-60
Stephen and the Sanhedrin
Moses and the Exodus
Idolatry of Israel
"An idol has such controlling position in your heart that you can spend most of your passion and energy, your emotional and financial resources, on it without a second thought. If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning in life, and identity, then it's an idol."
— Tim Keller
4 Meta-categories of Idolatry
We all have heart tenancies when it comes to idolatry. To help us broaden our understanding and awareness, we'll use the word "CAPS" as a mnemonic (tool for memory) to describe the larger (or meta) categories of idolatry.
Comfort - pleasure, health, freedom, excesses, recreation, home and vehicles
Approval - relationships, achievement, ethnicity, social circles, appearance
Power - control, position, influence, success, exerted strength
Security - family, finances, protection, religion, safety, future
One definition of the word "caps" is a summit or top, as of a mountain. There are mountains in our lives that crowd the landscape. They can be perceived by many as pinnacles or high points that we strive to reach. The problem is if we elevate these things above God and consider them before God it will lead to sin and folly, affecting our identities, how we relate to God and how we relate to others, ultimately hindering our experience of the Gospel.
1 John 5:21
"Dear children, keep away from anything that might take God's place in your hearts."