Category: Lessons

The Experience of Unity in the Christian Church

• Lesson 5 for the week of October 27 to November 3

Relevant Verses: Acts 1-2, 4- 5 Leading Question: With reference to unity, how should one assess the NT evidence: Positively? Negatively? Or as a toss-up? In light of what one finds in the New Testament and...

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The Key to Unity

• Lesson 4 for the week of October 20 to October 27

Relevant Verses: Ephesians Leading Question: Among believers today, does being “in Christ” transform everything? The vision in the book of Ephesians is incredibly expansive, the memory text for this week makes this bold assertion: “And this...

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“That They All May Be One”

• Lesson 3 for the week of October 13 to October 20

Relevant Verses: John 13-17, Mark 9:38-41, John 10:16 Leading Question: Is oneness (in Christ) so important that we should seek unity at any price? In his famous “unity” prayer, Jesus asked that his disciples be “one,”...

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Causes of Disunity

• Lesson 2 for the week of October 6 to October 13

Relevant Verses: Deut. 28, Judges, 1 Kings 12, Jer. 3:14-18; 1 Cor. 1 Leading Question: If Paul admonishes us to think on what is true, honorable, just, and pure (Phil. 4:8), are we justified in...

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Creation and Fall

• Lesson 1 for the week of September 29 to October 6

Relevant Verses: Genesis 1, 3, 11 Leading Question: Why should one little sin in the Garden of Eden Leave such a huge imprint on the human family? Our topic this quarter is “Oneness in Christ,”...

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Journey to Rome

• Lesson 13 for the week of September 22 to September 29

Relevant Verses: Acts 27-28 Leading Question: Have you ever had someone who is a good person, but a bad traveling companion? What sort of a traveling partner would Paul have been? 1. Paul had always...

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Confinement in Caesarea

• Lesson 12 for the week of September 15 to September 22

Relevant Verses: Acts 24-26 Leading Question: Have you ever had to testify on your own behalf in a court of law? What was that like for you? 1. Following Paul’s arrest in Jerusalem, he was...

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Arrest in Jerusalem

• Lesson 11 for the week of September 8 to September 15

Relevant Verses: Acts 21-23:30 Leading Question: Are religious beliefs personal and private, or are there some religious differences that are worth arguing—even fighting—about? 1. Acts 21 begins with a recitation of the stages in Paul’s...

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The Third Missionary Journey

• Lesson 10 for the week of September 1 to September 8

Relevant Verses: Acts 18-20 Leading Question: The Christian church speaks quite a bit about baptism. Acts takes that word “baptism” and forces us to use the plural “baptisms”. So, how many types of baptism are...

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The Second Missionary Journey

• Lesson 9 for the week of August 25 to September 1

Relevant Verses: Acts 15:36-18:10 Leading Question: Can good, Christian people disagree so strongly that they can no longer work together? 1. Some time after their return from their first missionary journey, Paul suggested to Barnabas...

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The Jerusalem Council

• Lesson 8 for the week of August 18 to August 25

Relevant Verses: Acts 15 Leading Question: At the end of their missionary journey, Paul and Barnabas return to the church that sent them in Antioch. When they give their mission report, not everyone is happy....

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Paul’s First Missionary Journey

• Lesson 7 for the week of August 11 to August 18

Relevant Verses: Acts 13-14:26 Leading Question: All three of Paul’s so-called “missionary journeys” started in Antioch. Why were the believers in this city so supportive of these missionary endeavors? 1. According to Acts 13, the...

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The Ministry of Peter

• Lesson 6 for the week of August 4 to August 11

Relevant Verses: Acts 9, 26:9-11 Leading Question: Peter saw a vision of all sorts of animals being let down to earth in a large sheet. A voice said, “Kill, and eat.” Was this a vision...

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The Conversion of Paul

• Lesson 5 for the week of July 28 to August 4

Relevant Verses: Acts 9, 26:9-11 Leading Question: Saul of Tarsus, who becomes known as Paul, is converted while on a mission to persecute believers in Jesus. But who was Saul? What do we know about...

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