Paul's Field Trips
The home base of Paul and where people were first called "Christians."
What is Antioch?
Group of people gathering, used as the word for church
What is ekklesia?
The author of Acts.
Who is Luke?
The example the Bible uses to show the depravity of Saul before his conversion.
What is the stoning of Stephen?
Someone killed for their faith.
What is a martyr?
Who is Priscilla & Aquila?
Meant to edify and unite the church.
What are spiritual gifts?
The first martyr of the Christian faith.
Who is Stephen?
An argument between Peter and Paul that involved Gentiles and an old, valued Hebrew tradition that set them apart from other people groups.
What is the Jerusalem Council?
A reason why Christianity did not mesh well with the Roman Empire.
What is mono/poly, cult of Roma, faithfulness to religion, self-control, truth only claims, etc?
Four countries that Paul visits, plants churches in, and encourages Christians on his journeys.
What is Italy, Turkey, Greece, Cyprus, Syria, Israel, Malta?
"outward sign of an inward grace"
What is a sacrament?
Thousands were gathered in Jerusalem when this event occurred that begun the book of Acts.
What is Pentecost?
The (two-part) location of Paul's life-changing encounter with Jesus.
What is the road to Damascus?
The systematic study and contextual interpretation of Scripture.
Paul's close friend, apprentice, and brother in Christ.
Who was Timothy?
Early church how-to manual.
What is the Didache?
Someone sent out to carry a specific message.
What is an apostle?
The most important aspect of the Sacraments.
What is unity of the body?
The earliest found example of a house church building that features baptismal murals.
What is the Dura-Europos church?
Paul's ultimate goal while traveling around Asia Minor illegally preaching the Gospel and encouraging the Church
What is to go to Rome and spread the Gospel there?
Jewish purification ritual used these and a reason why the Christian baptism was not looked skeptically at.
What is the mikveh?
This man meets another man and becomes the first uncircumcised Jew to be baptized, marking a new tradition.
Who is Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch?
What is Peter's vision & meeting with Cornelius?
The belief that spiritual gifts of the miraculous variety remain active in the Church.
What is continuationism?