Acts: Lesson OneWhat’s Acts all about?Why study it?Where does it begin?Where does it leave off?Why did God inspire Luke to write it?What will I gain by studying Acts?

Acts: Lesson OneWhat do you lack today that you long to have in your life? If you could summarize that in one word, what would it be? Write it down.

Acts: Lesson OneConfidence?Direction?Passion?Consistency?Eagerness?

Vision?Patience?Hope?Peace?Comfort?

Acts: Lesson OneHaving that one thing...what would it change?

Your relationships?Your job?Your finances?Your plans?

Acts: Lesson One

Are we missing anything that the disciples had?

We have everything they had and more.

Acts: Lesson OneThemes in Acts

EvangelismThe Power of the Holy SpiritCommunity lifeConcern for the PoorTeaching

Acts: Lesson OneThemes in Acts

PrayerBreaking human barriers in ChristSufferingSovereignty of God

Acts: Lesson OneThemes in Acts

The Jewish reaction to the gospelGospel to Gentiles

Acts: Lesson One

What are the apostle like to begin with?Shady, sleepy, sluggish, and sneaky

What do they become?ridiculously, dangerously, powerfully,

ambitious gang on a mission.

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Something changed. What was it? The resurrection...

The coming of the Holy Spirit...But there’s something else

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They now understand the Old Testament.

Acts: Lesson One25 And he said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets

have spoken! 26 Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory?” 27 And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.

Acts: Lesson One44 Then he said to them, “These are my words

that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.” 45 Then he opened their minds to

understand the Scriptures, 46 and said to them, “Thus it is written,

Acts: Lesson OneThe disciples were changed because of the

reality of the resurrection, through the power of the Holy Spirit,

the truth that Jesus was the fulfillment of the Old Testament

that God’s plan was right on time

Acts: Lesson OnePeter is like any of us who just do the

work.We don’t always understand it.

We just do.We trust and obey.

Acts: Lesson One

Acts isDescriptive and

Prescriptive

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The Message of Acts:1) Wasn’t changed to suit the society2) Didn’t guarantee a fabulous life

Acts: Lesson One

In Acts we see the principle of the exchanged life –

"Not I, but Christ"

Acts: Lesson One

The gospel isn’t good news of an easier life – it’s the best new

of an abundant life – an eternally positioned life.

Acts: Lesson One

In Acts we see the birth of the Church.

Acts: Lesson One

In Acts we see the new mission – Jerusalem, Judea,

the ends of the earth.

Acts: Lesson One

In Acts we see also an unfinished book

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Acts is now usThe seeds of the Gospel

continue to go out