Speaker: Michael Shockley, ReCreate Church Scripture: Acts 1:12-15; 2:1-13 Bigger Than The Room Series, Part 1

In part 1 of the new "Bigger Than The Room" series, Pastor Michael shares the story of ReCreate Church stepping into a new season - moving to a larger meeting space at the local middle school. Through the opening chapters of Acts, we discover that 120 people in a room in Jerusalem changed the world. Not because of the room, but because they refused to stay in it. God is doing something bigger than this room - and always has been.

- The 120 disciples gathered in one room with one accord - united in purpose, prayer, and passion for Jesus - The Holy Spirit came to empower them for witness, not just for a personal experience in the room - When the Spirit moved, the room couldn't hold them - the message spilled out into the streets - God was doing something bigger than their expectations - not restoring an earthly kingdom, but building an eternal one - The size of the room matters less than the faith of the people in it

God is doing something bigger than this room. The Church was never meant to be a building - it is a community of life and love that cannot truly be contained. There are thousands of people in our community who need to hear that Jesus loves them and laid down His life for them. God is giving us a bigger room. Let's go reach the people who aren't in it yet.

- "God is doing something bigger than this room." - "The gathering in the room was important - it's where they prayed, connected, and prepared for the mission. But the message inside the room didn't stay inside the room." - "I was trying to use my experience to understand the truth, when what I needed was to use the truth to understand my experience." - "Sometimes God can be doing something extraordinary right in front of us, and because it doesn't look like what we expect, we might not recognize it for what it is." - "Their expectations had boundaries; God's did not." - "The faith of the people in the room matters far more than the size of the room."

Is there a "room" in your life - a painful season, a failed plan, or an unanswered prayer - where God might be doing something bigger than what you can currently see?

Tune in to hear Pastor Michael's vulnerable story of being let go from a job he prayed for, what a prayer journal revealed about the year that followed, and how an email in December changed everything.

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