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- What in the text/sermon was most illuminating or helpful?
- Read and discuss each stage of Paul’s defense.
- Reference
- Acts 26:2-3, 4-8, 9-11,12-16, 17-21, and 22-23.
- How important is having hope in something? What was Paul’s hope?
- How does the resurrection of Jesus prove hope?
- Reference
- 1 Corinthians 15:20-21
- Acts 2:24, 3:14, 4:10, 13:32, and 17:2-3
- Many of us do not have testimonies as dramatic as Paul’s. However, we can learn things from Paul to help us share our own experiences.
- What are they? What are some things that all testimonies have in common?
- How meaningful are friendships when storms come into your life?
- Describe a time when friendships helped you get through a storm.
- How does the Lord encourage Paul in Acts 27:23-24?
- Discuss how God’s sovereign promise and the responsibility of those aboard the ship work together.
- How has God encouraged you in your storms?
- What are some practical ways God gets glory in our storms?
- How do storms allow you to witness Christ?
- Share an experience when a storm in your life or someone else’s opened the door for gospel-witnessing.
- Read Acts 28:17-28
- When you share the gospel with someone and the gospel is rejected, do you feel like you are failing or not succeeding in your task?
- Why or why not?
- What does a successful gospel ministry look like?
- Read Acts 28:30-31
- Paul is trapped in his own house under house arrest, yet still needing to pay for all of his own expenses (and perhaps the costs of a live-in Roman guard), while awaiting judgment on false charges… and he is considered to be ministering “without hinderance.”
- What is your mission and ministry in life?
- What do you feel are hindering your ministry and mission? Why?
