Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion you should be able to:

• Trace the major themes of Acts through the key events and speeches in Acts

• Discuss the authorship, date, and purpose of Acts

• Summarize Luke’s view of the ot promises in relation to the gospel of Christ

• Explain the roles of God, Jesus, the Spirit, Peter, Paul and James in Acts

• Articulate a broad understanding of the entire scope of the book of Acts

• Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of Christian ethics for Luke

• Make a coherent argument for the open ending of Acts

Course Outline

Introduction

• Introducing the Speaker and the Course

Unit 1: Common Themes in Luke-Acts

• Setting the Context

• Tracing Luke’s Involvement in Acts

• God, Scripture, and Jesus

• The Spirit and the Kingdom

• Salvation, Jews, and Gentiles

• Christian Ethics and Israel

• Speeches in Acts

Unit 2: The Church Begins

• Ascension, Promise, and Mission

• A Community in Expectation

• Pentecost: The Spirit Comes

• Peter’s Pentecost Speech

• Researching the Greek Word for “Filling”

• Peter’s Miracle

• Peter’s Temple Speech

• Finding Old Testament Quotes and Allusions in Acts

• The Old Testament in Peter’s Speech

• Jesus Is the Only Way

• Community Issues

• Responding to Injustice

• Stephen’s Speech

Unit 3: The Church Spreads

• Movement beyond Jerusalem

• The Ethiopian Eunuch and Isaiah 53

• The Calling of Saul

• Peter and Cornelius

• Finding Old Testament Laws about Food Restrictions

• Peter’s Speech Analyzed

• Peter’s Defense and Antioch

• Peter and Herod Contrasted

Unit 4: Paul the Missionary

• The First Missionary Journey

• Using Louw-Nida to Find All the Places Paul Visited in Acts

• Paul’s Synagogue Speech

• Persecution and a New Missions Context

• The Jerusalem Council

• Peter’s Council Speech

• The Second Missionary Journey

• Paul in Thessalonica, Berea, and Athens

• Paul’s Speech in Athens

• The Mission in Corinth

• The Third Missionary Journey

• Eutychus and the Ephesian Elders

• Paul’s Speech to the Ephesian Elders

• Researching the Idea of Leaders as Shepherds with Cultural Concepts

Unit 5: Paul the Prisoner

• Paul’s Arrest in Jerusalem

• Paul’s Defense and Citizenship

• Paul’s Defense Speech

• A Plot to Kill Paul

• Paul’s Speech to the Sanhedrin

• Paul’s Defense before Felix

• Paul versus Tertullus

• Paul’s Appeal to Caesar

• Paul before Agrippa

• A Personal Testimony

• A Threefold Defense

• From Israel to Rome

• Paul Arrives in Rome

Conclusion

• The Open Ending

Details

• Title: NT217 Key Events and Speeches in Acts

• Instructor: Darrell L. Bock

• Publisher: Lexham Press

• Publication Date: 2015

• Product Type: Logos Mobile Education

• Resource Type: Courseware, including transcripts, audio, and video resources

• Courses: 1

• Video Hours: 4