Acts 2:38 conversions and deliverance

[aegsm76]

Originally Posted by Amanah

Are you seeing people receiving the Holy Ghost and being Baptized in Jesus Name? are you seeing people being delivered and healed? Are you seeing people continue to live for God?

If so please describe your church environment, your order of services, your meetings places, how your church leadership is organized, what advice you would give to others on how to build a church.

do you have preservice prayer? do you have expressive worship? what can we do to please God in our services and what advice can you give.

In the last 2-3 weeks we have had 3 receive the HG and 5 baptized.
We have a young girl who was healed of two incurable diseases at Peak, last year.
We also have had three women who the doctors had said would never have children with fertility help, healed and have children in the last 2 years.
Also multiple healings of not so "dramatic" nature.
In the last few years we have grown from 60-70 to over 150 (that I counted last Sunday, not sure about the official count). Most of this growth is in our young people (especially young men) and young married couples. Some of the young married couples were backsliders and some were new converts.
Currently we are having Sunday morning service at 10:30, Sunday evening at 6. Monday prayer at 7 pm. Wednesday is "Sunday School" at 7 pm. Friday is youth service at 7 pm. We moved away from Sunday School on Sunday because we are currently in building program mode and this requires us to be more flexible. We will probably go back to Sunday morning Sunday School in six months or so.
We have multiple layers of leadership with ministry teams, prayer teams, youth team, hyphen (college and career singles), young marrieds, seniors, mens, womens, music, outreach, bible quiz and probably more that I am forgetting.
We have preservice prayer starting 45 minutes before each service, we have expressive, but not excessive worship.
The one area of our congregation that seems to be under attack right now, is the young marrieds. We have two couples that have offically "divorced" and two other marriages that are struggling. In every case, it has been the husband who has backslidden and left. This is very troubling and we have recently changed some things in the young marrieds classes due to this.
Now, we do have many solid young couples, so not to present a false picture.
Insofar as to building a church, I have been part of 3 great revival churches in my life. The most important thing is the word and prayer, in my opinion. You could also say this as a hunger for God and to share this with others.
More I could say, but do not have the time at the moment.
God bless.

[Amanah]

Originally Posted by aegsm76

In the last 2-3 weeks we have had 3 receive the HG and 5 baptized.
We have a young girl who was healed of two incurable diseases at Peak, last year.
We also have had three women who the doctors had said would never have children with fertility help, healed and have children in the last 2 years.
Also multiple healings of not so "dramatic" nature.
In the last few years we have grown from 60-70 to over 150 (that I counted last Sunday, not sure about the official count). Most of this growth is in our young people (especially young men) and young married couples. Some of the young married couples were backsliders and some were new converts.
Currently we are having Sunday morning service at 10:30, Sunday evening at 6. Monday prayer at 7 pm. Wednesday is "Sunday School" at 7 pm. Friday is youth service at 7 pm. We moved away from Sunday School on Sunday because we are currently in building program mode and this requires us to be more flexible. We will probably go back to Sunday morning Sunday School in six months or so.
We have multiple layers of leadership with ministry teams, prayer teams, youth team, hyphen (college and career singles), young marrieds, seniors, mens, womens, music, outreach, bible quiz and probably more that I am forgetting.
We have preservice prayer starting 45 minutes before each service, we have expressive, but not excessive worship.
The one area of our congregation that seems to be under attack right now, is the young marrieds. We have two couples that have offically "divorced" and two other marriages that are struggling. In every case, it has been the husband who has backslidden and left. This is very troubling and we have recently changed some things in the young marrieds classes due to this.
Now, we do have many solid young couples, so not to present a false picture.
Insofar as to building a church, I have been part of 3 great revival churches in my life. The most important thing is the word and prayer, in my opinion. You could also say this as a hunger for God and to share this with others.
More I could say, but do not have the time at the moment.
God bless.

awesome testimony, and awesome that you have preservice prayer, not all churches do.

[Wilsonwas]

We also do pre-service prayer. I think this tends to "center" everyone and invites the Lord in before we crank up to worship.

The evangelist's young daughter got the holy ghost two weekends back. And that was a special kids service.

[BuckeyeBukaroo]

Originally Posted by aegsm76

Why?
So that everyone here can pick it apart?
Or are you just wanting to understand a little more about us?

You do know she is a member of FPC of Palm Bay... right?

[aegsm76]

Originally Posted by BuckeyeBukaroo

You do know she is a member of FPC of Palm Bay... right?

Yes.
The comment was more intended for others in the general population, not so much directed at her.

[navygoat1998]

Our youth just came back from youth camp. The youth camps are very Spirit filled and many of the youth come back filled with His Spirit. This is not just our church,but district wide.

I am not sure the number but we have on a regular basis people filled with His Spirit.

[votivesoul]

We're going to a baptism tomorrow for a young woman who received the Holy Spirit in my mom's living room during Bible study. My stepdad is going to immerse her in the name of Jesus Christ at a nearby lake.

[berkeley]

Originally Posted by votivesoul

We're going to a baptism tomorrow for a young woman who received the Holy Spirit in my mom's living room during Bible study. My stepdad is going to immerse her in the name of Jesus Christ at a nearby lake.

Awesome report.

[votivesoul]

Originally Posted by Amanah

Are you seeing people receiving the Holy Ghost and being Baptized in Jesus Name? are you seeing people being delivered and healed? Are you seeing people continue to live for God?

Yes.

If so please describe your church environment...

Will you be more specific please, by what you mean regarding "environment"?

...your order of services...

There aren't any order of services in our assembly when we meet, apart from seeking God together, and being led and yielding to Him and being in subjection to each other.

...your meetings places...

Homes.

...how your church leadership is organized...

Collegiate eldership with 1 Corinthians 11:1-3 as the primary guiding structure.

...what advice you would give to others on how to build a church...

Crucify the flesh with the lusts and affections thereof. Do this through prayer coupled with consistent fasting, allowing the Spirit to make intercession, until Christ is formed in each member. Sow to the Spirit in many way in many things, but particularly through personal evangelism and holy boldness. Win people where they are at, not expect them to meet you at some geographic location several days hence at a prescribed time of day. Love one another fervently with unfeigned love so as to increase unity. Gorge on the Holy Scriptures. Have faith. Suffer for the Gospel.

After that, or rather, with the help of all of that, GET OUT OF THE WAY.

do you have preservice prayer?

No. Prayer ought to be considered the main part of service, not something done before one serves in a "service". The temple of God is the House of Prayer. This idea that we pray to get our minds right so we can move on to other things is a mistake, in my opinion. Don't pray just so you can clear your head and get down to business. Pray because it intimately connects you to your Savior and because it's the root cause of and foundation of everything else. Praying just so you're in a good place mentally or spiritually is missing the point. It's not about a catharsis so you can earn an anointing so you can minister at a better level. There is no better level than consecrated prayer.

The Holy Spirit was poured out on Pentecost after a 10 day prayer meeting. The house that was shaken in Acts 4 was on account of prayer, nothing else. Cornelius's salvation was obtained through prayer, both him and Simon's.

Preservice prayer makes it sound like it's just something to squeeze in so the church can do something more important. And in my experience, that's how a lot of people treat it.

do you have expressive worship?

Define "expressive"?

what can we do to please God in our services and what advice can you give.

Trust Him and GET OUT OF THE WAY.

[Amanah]

Originally Posted by votivesoul

Yes.

Will you be more specific please, by what you mean regarding "environment"?

There aren't any order of services in our assembly when we meet, apart from seeking God together, and being led and yielding to Him and being in subjection to each other.

Homes.

Collegiate eldership with 1 Corinthians 11:1-3 as the primary guiding structure.

Crucify the flesh with the lusts and affections thereof. Do this through prayer coupled with consistent fasting, allowing the Spirit to make intercession, until Christ is formed in each member. Sow to the Spirit in many way in many things, but particularly through personal evangelism and holy boldness. Win people where they are at, not expect them to meet you at some geographic location several days hence at a prescribed time of day. Love one another fervently with unfeigned love so as to increase unity. Gorge on the Holy Scriptures. Have faith. Suffer for the Gospel.

After that, or rather, with the help of all of that, GET OUT OF THE WAY.

No. Prayer ought to be considered the main part of service, not something done before one serves in a "service". The temple of God is the House of Prayer. This idea that we pray to get our minds right so we can move on to other things is a mistake, in my opinion. Don't pray just so you can clear your head and get down to business. Pray because it intimately connects you to your Savior and because it's the root cause of and foundation of everything else. Praying just so you're in a good place mentally or spiritually is missing the point. It's not about a catharsis so you can earn an anointing so you can minister at a better level. There is no better level than consecrated prayer.

The Holy Spirit was poured out on Pentecost after a 10 day prayer meeting. The house that was shaken in Acts 4 was on account of prayer, nothing else. Cornelius's salvation was obtained through prayer, both him and Simon's.

Preservice prayer makes it sound like it's just something to squeeze in so the church can do something more important. And in my experience, that's how a lot of people treat it.

Define "expressive"?

Trust Him and GET OUT OF THE WAY.

Does someone preach/teach a message each time you get together also?
I agree that prayer/worship is the main thing, without connecting to God, you have nothing.
But the other vital part is the perfecting of the saints through the ministry (Ephesians 4:12)