The ACTS of the Apostles  8

 

Read Acts 7:1-53

 

1. What is one time in your life you wish you could do over again?

 

 

 

 

2. In what ways are you just like your parents? In what ways are you different?

 

 

 

 

3. What was Stephen’s initial response to the leaders? (7:2)

 

 

 

 

4. In what ways did God bless His people outside the land of Israel? (7:2-5, 7-10, 29-34)

 

 

 

 

5. How did Stephen show that the temple is not God’s true dwelling place? (7:47-50) What was Stephen suggesting?

 

 

 

 

6. Which “spiritual ancestors” from the Bible do you admire most? Why?

 

 

7. How can we learn from people that have gone before us?

 

 

 

 

8. What stiff-necked attitudes prevent us from seeing what God wants us to see? How can this be damaging?

 

 

 

 

Read Acts 7:54-8:1

 

9. Why did the Jewish leaders respond to Stephen as they did? (7:54)

 

 

 

 

10. How did Stephen’s heavenly vision prepare him for what was to follow? (7:55)

 

 

 

 

11. What change in the church did Stephen’s death bring about? (8:1)

 

 

 

 

12. How has God “scattered” your church?