Sermon
Are Big Churches Bad?
Center Church
Speaker: Josh Miller
November 9, 2025 · 48 min
Summary
Acts 2 narrates Pentecost—the church's birthday—where the Holy Spirit falls, empowering disciples to preach the gospel in multiple languages. Peter calls listeners to repentance, baptism, and devoted fellowship, resulting in 3,000 conversions. The sermon challenges believers to move forward through personal devotion to Christ, local church commitment, and participation in God's mission.
Highlights
Don't lose heart in prayer. Keep waiting before the Lord in prayer, because usually prayers get answered gradually and then suddenly.
The local church is God's blueprint for your spiritual growth. The New Testament doesn't have a category for a churchless Christianity.
Devotion is like the secret ingredient to a powerful, healthy, moving church. You get motivation to be devoted by seeing just how devoted to you God is in Jesus Christ.