Reading the Acts of the Apostles Together
What are the core values and practices of a prayer-centered and mission focused community as illustrated in the Acts of the Apostles?
What and how would our church/community/group look like in light of reading Acts as an impetus for change and growth in prayer and mission? How could the ministry of our committees, commissions and our diocese be different after reading and studying Acts?
Translations:
The Message, The Bible in Contemporary Language, Eugene Peterson
The Young Church in Action (paraphrase), J. B. Phillips
Helps for Reading Acts:
Lectio Divina
N.T. Wright, Acts for Everyone, John Knox/Westminster Press
Acts Study Guide, Inter Varsity Press
Kavin Rowe (Thriving Communities: the pattern of church life now and then) – Available on Kindle $4.99.
A Selected Reading of Acts
- Acts 1: 1-15
- Acts 2: 1-11
- Acts 2: 42-47
- Acts 3: 1-12
- Acts 4: 1-12
- Acts 6: 1-7
- Acts 8: 14-17
- Acts 9: 20-22
- Acts 10: 25-45
- Acts 11: 25-30
- Acts 15: 1-12
- Acts 16: 1-10
- Acts 17:1-15
- Acts 19: 10
- Acts 27: 27-44
- Acts 28: 11-15, 30,31