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A Beautiful Pattern
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A Beautiful Pattern
Small Group Questions
Does your walk with Christ present itself as a “pattern of faithfulness”? Do you worship God in the good and bad times? Give some examples. If you have been faithful what things helped keep you there? If not what things do you think drew you away?Do you fact check the sermons you listen to? How much time do you spend? What resources do you use?What have you done with the gifts and resources God has given you?
A Beautiful Pattern
Acts 28:16-31
Luke’s history of the early church is brought to an end here. What happened to Paul is generally thought to be the following. Paul remained in confinement for 2 years under house arrest. He was able to receive visitors and preach the gospel. During this time, he wrote the letters to the Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, and to Philemon. In app. AD 63 Paul was acquitted and released. For the next two years he continued his missionary endeavors. During this period he wrote 1 Timothy and Titus. Paul was again arrested in AD 67, taken back to Rome. He wrote 2 Timothy during his second imprisonment in Rome. His imprisonment ended with his martyrdom under the Roman Emperor Nero, tradition says by beheading.
The book of Acts breaks off suddenly, with no formal conclusion to what God continued to do through the Holy Spirit and the apostles. Yet, God intends that the acts of the Spirit and the preaching of the gospel continue in the lives of Christ’s people until the end of the age.
The book of Acts then reveals God’s beautiful pattern of what the church should do and be. He has given us examples of the faithfulness of believers, the triumph of the gospel against the opposition of the enemy and the power of the Holy Spirit operating in the church and among God’s people.
This is God’s pattern for present and future churches, and we must faithfully proclaim it and live it.
Acts records:
1. A pattern for the faithfulness of the believer
What is said of Jesus should be said of His people. Jesus life was marked by His faithfulness to the will of the Father, and so should ours.
Paul arrived in Rome in chains and only after setbacks, storms, shipwreck and many trials. Paul remained faithful, even though God did not make his way easy or trouble free.
Book titled, “Not a Fan”- are you a fan or a follower? The difference between those who dabble around Christianity and those who have died to self and are born again; those who are a fan of the Savior and follow His miracles until they get what they want and those who follow Him to the cross.
The call of the faithful is to die to self. It’s the common theme of our church. We cannot have His resurrection power, unless we are crucified with Him. If you are to identify yourself with Jesus, you must first identify with His suffering and death.
Galatians 2:20 Amplified Bible, Classic Edition (AMPC)
20 I have been crucified with Christ [in Him I have shared His crucifixion]; it is no longer I who live, but Christ (the Messiah) lives in me; and the life I now live in the body I live by faith in (by adherence to and reliance on and complete trust in) the Son of God, Who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
Paul was a faithful follower until he departed from this world and he left us with a beautiful pattern that we can follow. His prison letters to the churches in Phillipi, Ephesus and Colosse reveal a victorious man who surrendered all in order to be found faithful in Christ....
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A Beautiful Pattern
Small Group Questions
Does your walk with Christ present itself as a “pattern of faithfulness”? Do you worship God in the good and bad times? Give some examples. If you have been faithful what things helped keep you there? If not what things do you think drew you away?Do you fact check the sermons you listen to? How much time do you spend? What resources do you use?What have you done with the gifts and resources God has given you?
A Beautiful Pattern
Acts 28:16-31
Luke’s history of the early church is brought to an end here. What happened to Paul is generally thought to be the following. Paul remained in confinement for 2 years under house arrest. He was able to receive visitors and preach the gospel. During this time, he wrote the letters to the Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, and to Philemon. In app. AD 63 Paul was acquitted and released. For the next two years he continued his missionary endeavors. During this period he wrote 1 Timothy and Titus. Paul was again arrested in AD 67, taken back to Rome. He wrote 2 Timothy during his second imprisonment in Rome. His imprisonment ended with his martyrdom under the Roman Emperor Nero, tradition says by beheading.
The book of Acts breaks off suddenly, with no formal conclusion to what God continued to do through the Holy Spirit and the apostles. Yet, God intends that the acts of the Spirit and the preaching of the gospel continue in the lives of Christ’s people until the end of the age.
The book of Acts then reveals God’s beautiful pattern of what the church should do and be. He has given us examples of the faithfulness of believers, the triumph of the gospel against the opposition of the enemy and the power of the Holy Spirit operating in the church and among God’s people.
This is God’s pattern for present and future churches, and we must faithfully proclaim it and live it.
Acts records:
1. A pattern for the faithfulness of the believer
What is said of Jesus should be said of His people. Jesus life was marked by His faithfulness to the will of the Father, and so should ours.
Paul arrived in Rome in chains and only after setbacks, storms, shipwreck and many trials. Paul remained faithful, even though God did not make his way easy or trouble free.
Book titled, “Not a Fan”- are you a fan or a follower? The difference between those who dabble around Christianity and those who have died to self and are born again; those who are a fan of the Savior and follow His miracles until they get what they want and those who follow Him to the cross.
The call of the faithful is to die to self. It’s the common theme of our church. We cannot have His resurrection power, unless we are crucified with Him. If you are to identify yourself with Jesus, you must first identify with His suffering and death.
Galatians 2:20 Amplified Bible, Classic Edition (AMPC)
20 I have been crucified with Christ [in Him I have shared His crucifixion]; it is no longer I who live, but Christ (the Messiah) lives in me; and the life I now live in the body I live by faith in (by adherence to and reliance on and complete trust in) the Son of God, Who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
Paul was a faithful follower until he departed from this world and he left us with a beautiful pattern that we can follow. His prison letters to the churches in Phillipi, Ephesus and Colosse reveal a victorious man who surrendered all in order to be found faithful in Christ....