Tag: Acts
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Christ’s body: A brief history (Ephesians 4:11–13)
Paul didn’t write Ephesians 4:11–13 to give us a detailed blueprint for how to organise our ministries. He wrote these verses to point us to God’s grace in Christ.
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The message is the mission (Ephesians 1:13)
What is God’s mission? What means is God using to bring about his purposes in Christ? What does that mean for our own mission as Christians and churches?
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What was Paul’s former “zeal”? Divine jealous passion for Israel’s purity
In my book, I argue that the ζῆλ* word-group in Paul and in Acts should normally be understood as a “divine jealous passion” for the purity of the people of Israel and their Law.
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Paul’s Apostolic Ministry as Presented in the Book of Acts
Lionel Windsor (2002) ‘In my former book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach’, writes Luke, at the beginning of his second volume (Acts 1:1, emphasis mine). The implication is that Jesus continued to act and to teach after his ascension (So Köstenberger and O’Brien 2001, 128). So Paul,…
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The New Testament Book of Acts – an overview
Lionel Windsor, 2001 Contents Purpose Date Importance Themes Quotations Structure Summary of themes Opposition / suffering The Holy Spirit The message Purpose Second part of Luke’s two-volume work Luke 19:10 “For the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost” Acts 1:8 “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit…