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Unit 3 Lesson 1 - Foundations

Oct 26, 2026  •  Brian Branam

Quiet Time Assignments: Acts 2:42-47, Psalm 119:9-16, Hebrews 10:19-27


Memory Verses: Acts 2:42, Hebrews 10:24-25


Lesson Description: What does it really mean to be devoted to something? Not just interested in it, not just occasionally engaged with it, but truly devoted? In this session, we dig into one of the most formative passages in the entire New Testament, Acts 2:42-47, where the earliest followers of Jesus modeled something that challenges the way many of us think about our faith. The Christian life, we discover, is deeply personal but never meant to be private. The Holy Spirit did not scatter those first believers into isolated spiritual routines. He drew them together into a community of mutual devotion. We explore what that word devoted really means in the original Greek, and it is far more demanding and far more rewarding than we might expect. It carries the image of a soldier holding a position, a worker pressing through until the job is done, a student refusing to stop until the material is mastered. That kind of devotion reframes everything, from how we approach a Sunday sermon to how we spend our quiet time each morning. If this session stirs something in you, it is because we were never meant to orbit our faith around our lives. We were meant to orbit our lives around our faith.