Today I begin a series of messages that I am entitling "Building Blocks." No institution, no individual is stronger than its foundation. I want to share with you over the next several weeks the "building blocks" that will be the foundation of Cross Pointe.

This is a Kodak moment. This is the first official service in the history of Cross Pointe. I want to take you back 2,000 years to another Kodak moment. I want to show you the earliest picture of the very first church in history. It is found in the book of Acts. Here in the second chapter we see the maternity ward where the first church was born.

3,000 people had just been saved. They had become followers of Christ. They were the charter members of Cross Pointe—the church at Jerusalem Center. Here we see the church "in its prime." Event…