Are you meeting regularly with a discussion group?  If you meet just once a week, you can find all of this week’s discussion questions in one place right here.

Question: What is the boldest thing you’ve ever done?  What were the risks?  Did it pay off?

Reading:

And as they were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came upon them, greatly annoyed because they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection from the dead. And they arrested them and put them in custody until the next day, for it was already evening. But many of those who had heard the word believed, and the number of the men came to about five thousand.

On the next day their rulers and elders and scribes gathered together in Jerusalem, with Annas the high priest and Caiaphas and John and Alexander, and all who were of the high-priestly family. And when they had set them in the midst, they inquired, “By what power or by what name did you do this?” Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers of the people and elders, if we are being examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled man, by what means this man has been healed, let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead—by him this man is standing before you well. This Jesus is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, which has become the cornerstone. And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”

Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated, common men, they were astonished. And they recognized that they had been with Jesus. (Acts 4:1-13 ESV)

Question: How does each unique audience hear and respond to the apostles and their message?  Why?

Question: Have you ever seen Christian teaching receive similar reactions today?  How?

Challenge: Find a way today to tell someone you are a Christian.  Again, don’t be a jerk.  Just mention something about Redeem the Commute helping you think differently, or your discussion group, or a church service if you attend one.  If they ask you what that means, or why, briefly point to the resurrection of Jesus as the reason you think or act differently.  I know it’s scary, be bold!

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