This is the final 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 and adventures of some of Jesus’s earliest followers.
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 23.1-11
“A hero, then, isn’t a person who can do things no one else can do. It’s someone whose endurance, faith, and love shake the rest of us out of our lethargy just enough to imagine we’re capable of doing similar things and thus always capable of experiencing God’s presence in life-altering ways.”
Skinner, Matthew L. (2015-09-15). Intrusive God, Disruptive Gospel: Encountering the Divine in the Book of Acts (Kindle Locations 2617-2619). Baker Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
Who are people in your life this fall whose endurance, faith and love have shaken you out of lethargy?
What is something you would like to have the courage to share about your faith because you have experienced God’s
life-altering presence in your own life? What support might you need to make this happen this week?