A. Selected passage: Acts 6:1–7
BIBL 350-D07 LUO
Student’s Name: Laurie Pelosi
Instructor’s Name: Mr. Kendall Walker
Submission Date: 08/18/2015 Introduction
This journey through Acts celebrates the message of Scripture and the growth of the Church. We also see some problems that take place between two cultures of the Jewish population, the Hellenistic Jews, who spoke Greek, and those who were the native Jews whose primary language was Aramaic. 1“In the Jewish world tension existed between the Grecian Jews and the Aramaic-speaking Jews; tragically these strains were brought into the church.” Acts 6:1:7 1"Now at this time while the disciples were increasing in number, a complaint arose on …show more content…
Luke is telling us in detail the beginning of the early church movement when Jesus was alive and walking on this earth until his death. After His ascension we are left with the Apostles and recently appointed Deacons to carry on through Jesus’s spirit as his followers. Luke is also showing us that God is Sovereign, and that as the Apostles did we are to bear witness. There is also focus on leadership skills can be utilized to bring harmony in a troublesome point. We are taught they we all have our own spiritual gifts, Luke is telling us that we are to use ours and continue to devote ourselves to prayer and worship. Our God given abilities should be used to continue the expansion of the church and help with ministry just at the appointed Seven did. It also seems reasonable that we consider other languages other than English to spread the word. Just as there was a difference between Greek and Aramaic they still through much adversity successfully organized a ministry that still continues …show more content…
The parallel shows us that Luke simply told us who Jesus was and Acts gives us the account of Jesus’ legacy he left and what we should be fulfilling.
Step 5 Grasp the text in our town
How should individual Christians today live out the theological principle(s)?
As Christians we should always do our part in church planting and evangelizing God’s word. We have to have a biblical sense and knowledge of who the man Jesus was. He cared for all, he had a heart for those who were needy, disabled and tortured. We have a clear and precise account of the struggles of the early Christian movement, and how conversion and adversity played such a large role. As Christians we are to serve as disciples and to share our gift and knowledge and continue to spread the gospel.
Bibliography
1. Ministry, Christian. 'CARM - The Christian Apologetics & Research Ministry'. CARM - The Christian Apologetics & Research Ministry. Last modified 2015. Accessed August 19, 2015. http://carm.org.
2. Polhill, John B. Acts. Nashville, Tenn.: Broadman Press, 1992.
3. Last modified 2015. Accessed August 19, 2015. http://got