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We are in the second week of our worship series on the New Testament Book of Acts. The Acts of the Apostles is a colorful book of the New Testament which shows the Gospel expressing itself through the lives, speech, struggles & adventures of some of Jesus’s earliest followers.
Outline: The Book of Acts
November 8: Acts 4:32-37 Community
November 15: Acts 9:1-22 Old Boundaries Erased
November 22: Acts 23:1-11 Heroics
“The Book of Acts emphasizes the disruptive character of the Christian gospel and shows how Acts repeatedly describes God as upsetting the status quo by changing people’s lives, society’s conventions, and our basic expectations of what’s possible.” ~ Matthew Skinner
Read Acts 9:1-22
“New perspectives rarely take hold easily. They often require something outside of ourselves— an idea, a message, another person— to confront us with new evidence or new possibilities. Actively embracing new hopes of what might be possible for us or for our world can take our faith on a white-knuckle ride. Ananias knows the feeling; at first he answers back to correct Jesus, but eventually he comes around and walks into a house where the church’s presumed archenemy waits for him.”
Skinner, Matthew L. (2015-09-15). Intrusive God, Disruptive Gospel: Encountering the Divine in the Book of Acts (Kindle Locations 1283-1286). Baker Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
Who would be hardest for you to accept (like Ananias)
if they showed up at your doorstep
or our church door proclaiming they’d met Jesus?
Who do you relate to the most in the story?