November: Acts and the Letters

This lesson is for the end of November:

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Discussion Questions:

Paul’s conversion was pretty dramatic. Have you ever experienced a moment when God clearly spoke to you and you changed direction (not necessarily your conversion to Christianity)? What did God say?
Not everyone can recall an experience that seems dramatic. If you are drawing a blank, when were you the most sure that God was directing you?
Paul had to admit that he was wrong about what he believed in order to embrace Jesus. Have you ever had to re-think what you believed in order to follow Jesus more closely?
What does fulfilling the “Great Commission” look like in your life? What have you learned about how to share Jesus with people?
What do you think God’s experience was as He witnessed and participated in fellowship with those first believers?
As you read Acts and the letters, what themes stood out to you? Was there anything that was discussed more often than you would have expected? Was there anything that surprised you?
Those early believers did not have the Bible in its entirety to cling to. What do you think they clung to as they faced severe persecution? (Possible answers: memorized scripture, scrolls passed from town to town, the Holy Spirit in them, EACH OTHER, etc.)
God used the Romans to build roads in preparation for the gospel to be spread, and God used the persecution of the church in Jerusalem to spread the gospel quickly. What do you think He is using in our time to spread the gospel?

Here is some interesting information regarding the gospel being spread to all nations: