Sceptics and the City

June 16, 2013 Speaker: Missio Dei Church Series: Acts - The Church: Continuing What Jesus Began

Topic: New Testament Expository Passage: Acts 17:16–17:34

Week 41 of a 68 week series in which we will be exploring the book of Acts in a series titled "The Church: Continuing What Jesus Began." This series will not just be a travelogue through the early church's history. It will be a reminder for us of what Jesus did on the earth in his tough, compassionate, loving, healing deeds and what he said on the earth in his truthful, authoritative, convicting, comforting teaching was only the beginning of his doing and his teaching.

Theme: To reach intellectuals for Christ, we must begin on common ground, show them God’s supremacy and their own sin, and call them to repentance and faith in the risen Lord Jesus.

Our latest installment of Missional Community study guides for the book of Acts can be found by clicking here. The questions for this coming Sunday include:

  1. Read aloud the above Scripture and talk about what stood out to you. This could be Scripture alone or it could something that the sermon pointed out to you from Sunday.

  2. What are some helpful ways to initiate a discussion of spiritual things?

  3. What do you say if someone says, “I don’t believe in God,” or, “I don’t believe in the Bible”?

  4. Why is the doctrine of creation crucial to the gospel? Should we debate evolution with an unbeliever? If so, how?

  5. Some argue that we should not mention repentance in a gospel presentation, but only faith in Christ. Why is repentance inseparable from saving faith?

  6. So, what are we, as individuals and as a Missional Community, going to do with this section of Scripture? What is God calling us to be? What is God calling us to do?

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