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Thursday: Conflict Within the Church

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Of course, nothing human is perfect, and it wasn’t long before trouble began within the early community of faith. For starters, not everyone was pleased with the entry of Gentile believers into the early church. Image © Standard Publishing from GoodSalt.com The disagreement was not over the concept of a Gentile mission, but over the basis on which Gentiles should be allowed to join. Some felt that faith in Jesus alone was not sufficient as the defining mark of the Christian; faith, they argued, must be supplemented with circumcision and obedience to the law of Moses. To be a true Christian, they asserted, Gentiles needed to be circumcised

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1: Paul – Apostle to the Gentiles – Discussion Starters

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The Gospel in Galatians.   According to the introduction to this 12-week series on the apostle Paul, the teaching threatening the early church was the false teaching that we are saved by faith and works

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Tuesday: Saul in Damascus

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During Saul’s encounter with Jesus, he was blinded and then instructed to go to the house of a man named Judas and to wait there for another man, Ananias. No doubt Saul’s physical blindness was a powerful reminder of the greater spiritual blindness that led him to persecute the followers of Jesus

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Sunday: Persecutor of Christians

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Image © Lifeway Collection Goodsalt.com Saul of Tarsus first appears in Acts as one involved in the stoning of Stephen ( Acts 7:58 ) and then in connection with the more wide-scale persecution that broke out in Jerusalem ( Acts 8:1-5 ) . Peter, Stephen, Philip, and Paul play a significant role in the book of Acts because they were involved in events that led to the spread of the Christian faith beyond the Jewish world. Stephen is of particular significance because his preaching and martyrdom appear to have had a profound influence on Saul of Tarsus. Stephen himself was a Greek-speaking Jew, and one of the original seven deacons ( Acts 6:3-6 ) . According to Acts, a group of Greek-speaking Jews who had come to live in Jerusalem ( Acts 6:9 ) entered into a dispute with Stephen over the content of his preaching about Jesus

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Friday: Further Thought – Major Themes in 1 and 2 Peter

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Further Thought: Even amid the heavy theology, Peter’s letters put a strong emphasis on Christian life and how we should treat one another. In other words, yes, we need to know the truth as it is in Jesus.

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