Partakers Bible Thought – The Spirit Explodes 10

2024-06-01

The Spirit Explodes Part 10 of 22A major step : welcoming non-Jews(Acts 9:32–10:48) by Roger Kirby After introducing Paul to us, Luke switches back to 3 stories about Peter, 2 minor and one major. First the 2 minor stories. As we read them watch out for several sharply contrasting features between the first and the second. Read Acts 9:32–43. Question 1: Apart from the obvious one of a bed-ridden person and a dead person, what are the major contrasts between these 2 stories? What are we meant to learn from them? ...

The Spirit Explodes
Part 10 of 22
A major step : welcoming non-Jews
(Acts 9:32–10:48)

by Roger Kirby

After introducing Paul to us, Luke switches back to 3 stories about Peter, 2 minor and one major. First the 2 minor stories. As we read them watch out for several sharply contrasting features between the first and the second.

Read Acts 9:32–43.

Question 1: Apart from the obvious one of a bed-ridden person and a dead person, what are the major contrasts between these 2 stories? What are we meant to learn from them?

Read Acts 10:1–18.

Question 2: What would these verses have meant to Theophilus, the guy for whom Luke wrote this book?

Read Acts 10:9–16.

Question 3: What would his reaction have been?

Question 4: What is the general significance of him being told this?

Read Acts 10:17–43.

Question 5: What were the most important things in his talk? What would have been the bullet points if he had had a computer?

Read Acts 10:44–48.

Question 6: This is a fundamentally important question. What was to replace the rules of Judaism?

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