The Book of Acts
This is the time period the book of Acts was written
What is 60-90 CE?
According to lecture, there are two key themes discussed for the Book of Acts
What is "God is Faithful" and "A New Community"?
Belief in Christ did this to a person...
What is flipped their life upside down?
These two characters make up the main portion of the story
Who is Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch?
This person was a court official and in charge of the treasury
Who is the Ethiopian Eunuch?
What is good and modern?
Understanding the Theme of God's Faithfulness, Acts says this is the fulfillment of God's promises
What is the church itself?
Belief in Jesus also realigned a person's loyalty...
As we say, it reoriented a person's ______ and broke down ______ _______
What is priorities and social barriers?
There are 4 key features to the setting of this story
What is...
The desert/deserted road
South of Jerusalem
Likely in the middle heat of the day
Chariot is likely more a wagon?
This is the passage the Eunuch was reading...
What is the Prophet Isaiah?
“Like a sheep he was led to the slaughter
and like a lamb before its shearer is silent,
so he opens not his mouth.
33 In his humiliation justice was denied him.
Who can describe his generation?
For his life is taken away from the earth.”
The disciples recognize this about Jesus's resurrection...
What is ushering in the Last Days
What is the New Covenant?
In "Were Christians Guilty of Sedition," Luke stresses these two things
What is...
Rome views Christians as innocent
AND
Christianity fundamentally flips Roman culture upside down?
Philip is a Hellenistic Jew from the Diaspora... He was also a deacon and an evangelist, but he was NOT...
(They are different people)
The Eunuch would have compared himself to this character in Isaiah 53
Who is Jesus?
According to Dr. Hall, these types of questions drive the New Testament
What is the "What now" questions?
From the unification of God's spirit, these two practices marked Christians as separate from everyone else
What is Baptism and The Lord's Supper?
"There is no such thing, at least in Acts, as being a _________ __ _______..." - Rowe, World Upside Down, 101, emphasis added.
What is being a Christian in private?
This is the assumption that there is a relationship
between physical and moral traits, such that
describing a person with certain physical
characteristics implies certain conclusions
about their moral character.
What is physiognomic rhetoric?
The Ethiopian Eunuch asked this question in his desire to be baptized...
What is "What is to hinder me?"
There are two purposes for the book of Acts...
What is...
To explain to early Christ followers
God’s faithfulness and Jesus’s
enduring presence in the early
church.
AND
To combat skepticism and
accusations by showing that
Christ-followers were not
troublemakers but rather good
citizens.
Acts 1-2 stresses the fulfillment of prophecies... These three prophetic expectations have three matching fulfillments...
(You must have both the expectations and fulfillments to be awarded the points)
What is...
Restoration of the Israelites -> 12 Apostles and inclusion of the diaspora
Spirit will dwell on God's people -> Gift of the Spirit at Pentecost
Drawing the nations -> the nations were included through faithful Israel
?
The Early Church faced these 4 key challenges
What is...
Internal conflict from rapid growth
External opposition from non-Christ believing Jews
External opposition from Rome (sedition)
Internal conflict from how to understand Jewish practices/old covenants and inclusion of the Gentiles?
Physiognomic rhetoric has three methods. The great and wise Dr. Hall gave us three strategies to remember them...
What is...
Anatomical (Legally Blonde)
Zoological (Winston Churchill, The Last Lion)
Ethnographical (You Might Be a Redneck Poster)
The Eunuch was "in between" these three categories
What is...
A Despised Outsider/Power Insider
Man/Woman
Jew/Gentile