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APOSTLES’
EXAMPLE OF MINISTRY IN HOMES
1.
Mark 16:14 “Afterward Jesus appeared unto the eleven as they
sat at meat…”
2.
Luke 24:13-32 “Two on road to Emmaus…and Jesus sat at meat
with them, he took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them.
And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of
their sight. And they said one to
another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way
and while he opened to us the scriptures? They
told how he was known of them in breaking of bread.”
3.
John 20:19, 26 “Then the same day at evening, being the first
day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for
fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst…After eight days again his
disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being
shut, and stood in the midst…”
4.
Acts 1:13 “And when they were come in they went up into an upper
room…”
5.
Acts 2:1-2 “And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they
were all with one accord in one place…it filled all the house
where they were sitting.”(v15 “120”)
6.
Acts 9:11 “In the house of Judas, one called Saul of
Tarsus:..”
7.
Acts 9:17 “Ananias went his way, and entered into the house;…”
8.
Acts 10:2 “Cornelius, a devout man, one that fear God with all
his house…
9.
Acts 10:6 “Peter lodgeth with one Simon a tanner, whose
house is by the sea side.”
10. Acts 10:22
“Cornelius to send for Peter into his house, and to hear words of thee.
And he called together his kinsmen and near friends and Peter found many
that were come together.”
11. Acts 10:32
“Simon is lodged in the house of one Simon a tanner by the sea side:”
12. Acts 12:12
“Peter came to the house of Mary the mother of John, whose surname was
Mark; where many were gathered together praying.”
13. Acts 16:15
“And when Lydia was baptized, and her household, she besought us
saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house,
and abide there. And she
constrained us.”
14. Acts 16:34
“And when the jailer had brought Paul and Silas into his house,
he set meat before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his
house(hold).”
15. Acts
17:5 “They assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them
out to the people. They drew Jason
and certain brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying.
These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also;…”
16.
Acts 18:1-3 ”Paul departed from Athens and came to Corinth; and
found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy,
with his wife Priscilla;(because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to
depart from Rome:) and came unto them. And
because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by
their occupation they were tentmakers.” Acts 18:7 “And Paul departed
thence, and enter into a certain man’s house, named
Justus, one that worshipped God, whose house joined hard to the
synagogue.”
17. Acts 18:8
“And Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord
with all
his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing believed, and were
baptized.”
18. Acts
20:7-12 “And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came
together to break bread, Paul preached unto them in the upper chamber
where they were gathered
together. Paul had broken
bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of
day, so he departed.”
17.
Acts 20:17, 20 “Paul sent to Ephesus, and called the
elders of the church…I have
taught you publicly and from house to house.”
18.
Acts 21:8-9 “Paul came unto Caesarea: and we entered into
the house of Philip the evangelist, which was one of the seven; and
abode with him. And the same
man had four daughters, virgins, which did prophesy.
We tarried there many days…”
19.
Acts 28:23, 30-31 “There came many to Paul into his
lodging(Rome); to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God…And
Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and
received all that came in unto him, preaching the kingdom of God, and
teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus, with all confidence,
no man forbidding him.”
20.
Romans 16:3, 5 “Greet Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in
Christ Jesus: Likewise greet
the church that is in their house.”
21.
Romans 16:15 “Salute Philologus, and Julia, Nereus, and his
sister, and Olympas, and
all the saints which are with them.
21.
Romans 16:23 “Gaius mine host, and of the whole
church, saluteth you.”
22.
I Corinthians 16:19 “The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila
and Pricilla salute you much in the Lord, with the church that is in
their house.”
23. Colossians
4:15 “Salute the brethren which are in Laodicea, and Nymphas,
and the church which is in his house.”
24.
II Timothy 1:16 “The Lord give mercy unto the house of
Onesiphorus; for he oft
refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain: But, when he was in Rome, he
sought
me out very diligently, and found me.”
25.
II Timothy 3:1-17 “This know also, that in the last days
perilous times shall
come…Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such
turn
away. For all of this sort are they
which creep into houses, and lead captive silly
women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, ever learning, and never able
to
come to the knowledge of the truth.”
26.
Titus 1:11 “The mouths of the circumcision must be stopped, who
subvert whole
houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.
27.
Philemon 2 “To our beloved Apphia, and Archippus our
fellowsoldier, and to the
church in thy
house(Philemon):”
28. II John 10
“If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine of Christ, receive
him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:”
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