apostles
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What hope did the apostles proclaim? Explore resurrection, renewed creation, and why the gospel’s future cannot be reduced to going to heaven at death.
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Why begin with the apostolic narrative before building a theological system? Explore how setting, sequence, and audience shape the meaning of Scripture.
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Read Acts 15 as a dispute about Gentile belonging and community life, considering what the Jerusalem decision required and how discipleship continued.
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What would a fuller apostolic faith look like today? Reflect on worship, community, obedience, and the practices that form Christian life.
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What did the apostles teach their churches? Explore the relationship between gospel proclamation, sustained instruction, community practice, and maturity.
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How did the apostles carry Jesus’ yoke into the life of the churches? Explore discipleship as shared practice, instruction, and accountable obedience.
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Read the earliest Church Fathers as witnesses to Christian practice, teaching, and continuity, while distinguishing their testimony from apostolic authority.
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Explore the scriptural world of the apostles, including Greek Jewish Scriptures, textual diversity, and the relationship between reading and tradition.
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Trace Silas across Acts and the apostolic letters, exploring messengers, collaboration, and the relationships through which early churches received teaching.
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Compare modern church habits with early Christian patterns of shared life, instruction, and participation, asking what faithful recovery might involve.
