11-30-2022 Acts 5:17-42

Wednesday, December 7 we will look at Acts Chapter 6. Following the study we will celebrate Thanksgiving/Christmas with a simple fellowship luncheon in the library. (Soup-Leslie and Jane, bread-Sue, dessert-Nancy Koger and Monika, with water and tea-Tammy and Donnita). I invited Kay Scott, our secretary of the church to join us.

Apostles as Models

Apostles are people who love and serve God faithfully

• conduits of God’s salvation

• respond to needs of others

• proclaim gospel in spite of threats from religious leaders

• resolve to remain obedient to God

• vulnerable before those who have their own ideas about God’s will and have power to stop them

• courage to persist because God instructs them

Characteristics of Early Christians ( Barclay)

1. They had courage.

2. They had principles.

   obedience to God must come first.

   “Is this what God would want me to do?”

3. They had a clear idea of their function

   1. They were witnesses for Christ (they spoke of firsthand knowledge)

   2. Gospel is true = Jesus is the Messiah, was crucified, died, was resurrected. The Gospel is unstoppable truth.