Acts 13-13 Outline

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I. What is xenophobia?
A. (Psychology) hatred or fear of foreigners or strangers or their politics or culture.
1. What does the Old Testament, Jesus, and Acts 13-28 have in common in the way they address this problem?
A. Acts describes the continued spread of the gospel to new peoples and land. God’s love is not for any one race or ethnic subgroup a love, but for all who will respond to the gospel call.
II. What role did Antioch play in the life of Paul and the early church?
A. Jerusalem or Zion, is where the church of Jesus Christ got their stard. But in apostolic time a different city came to overshadow Jerusalem in some respects. The city of Antioch, capital of the Roman province of Syria.
Antioch’s importance is to fold. (First), it modelled the …show more content…

What issue did the Jerusalem council debate? How should we apply its decisions today?
A. The Jews rejected the claim that Jesus was the Jewish Messiah. The debate was how a person is saved, forgiven of sin, and have the privileged of spreading the kingdom work in the earth and to enjoy heaven in the age to come.
B. The decision of the Jews was to follow Jewish beliefs and customs. Jewish Christians insisted that salvation was a free gift of God’s grace acquired through trusting in Jesus Christ.
IV. What effect did the spread of the gospel have in Ephesus?
A. Ephesus was the center for Artemis, goddess of fertility, they made their living from creating silver, idols in her honor rioted when the gospel message that ‘‘man-made gods are no gods at all’’ (Acts 19:26) threatened their livelihood. They were upset and attack the believer.
V. How did Paul, a prisoner, know that he would eventually reach Rome?
A. The Lord appeared to Paul by night and said, ‘‘Take courage! As you have testified about me in Jerusalem, so you must also testify in Rome.’’ (23:11). Paul waited two years and played his trump card; he appealed to Caesar because of his Roman citizenship.
VI. How did Paul’s appeal to Caesar, both save and trap

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