{"id":3622,"date":"2015-06-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/oyb\/and-they-continued-steadfastly-in-the-apostles-doctrine-and-fellowship-in-the-breaking-of-bread-and-in-prayers-acts-242-nkjv\/"},"modified":"2015-06-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T00:00:00","slug":"and-they-continued-steadfastly-in-the-apostles-doctrine-and-fellowship-in-the-breaking-of-bread-and-in-prayers-acts-242-nkjv","status":"publish","type":"oyb","link":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/oyb\/and-they-continued-steadfastly-in-the-apostles-doctrine-and-fellowship-in-the-breaking-of-bread-and-in-prayers-acts-242-nkjv","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;And they continued steadfastly in the apostles\u2019 doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in prayers&#8221; (Acts 2:42 NKJV)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first century church &#8220;continued steadfastly&#8221; in four devotions: 1) the apostle&#8217;s doctrine, 2) the fellowship, 3) the breaking of bread and 4) in prayers. And there was a rhythm to their days as they worshiped in the temple and met in one another&#8217;s homes (Acts 2:46). Following this pattern, the early church grew miraculously as God added to their number daily &#8220;those who were being saved&#8221; (Acts 2:47). We would do well to devote ourselves to this same pattern in our churches today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first century church &#8220;continued steadfastly&#8221; in four devotions: 1) the apostle&#8217;s doctrine, 2) the fellowship, 3) the breaking of bread and 4) in prayers. And there was a rhythm to their days as they worshiped in the temple and met in one another&#8217;s homes (Acts 2:46). Following this pattern, the early church grew miraculously as God added to their number daily &#8220;those who were being saved&#8221; (Acts 2:47). We would do well to devote ourselves to this same pattern in our churches today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"scripture-book":[1311],"scripture-chapter":[1335],"oyb_day":[1682],"location":[],"class_list":["post-3622","oyb","type-oyb","status-publish","hentry","scripture-book-acts","scripture-chapter-1335","oyb_day-june-4"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb\/3622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/oyb"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3622"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-book?post=3622"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-chapter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-chapter?post=3622"},{"taxonomy":"oyb_day","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb_day?post=3622"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=3622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}