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Acts

  1. Lesson One
    Overview of Acts (Acts 1–2, 7, 22–28)
    22 Activities
  2. Lesson Two
    A Gospel for Jews and then Gentiles
    23 Activities
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    1 Assessment
  3. Lesson Three
    The Gospel and Restoration
    25 Activities
  4. Lesson Four
    The Apostolic Church
    36 Activities
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    1 Assessment
  5. Lesson Five
    Author and Audience
    25 Activities
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    1 Assessment
  6. Course Wrap-Up
    Course Completion
    1 Activity
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    1 Assessment

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Acts A Gospel for Jews and then Gentiles In Front | Wide and Broad, Part 1
Lesson 2, Activity 19

In Front | Wide and Broad, Part 1

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There is a saying that “all roads lead to Rome.” That is certainly true of Acts, where the commissioning of a few disciples in Jerusalem spread until it had reached the capital of the world at that time. It’s difficult to feel how significant this was to the disciples as they watched the message cross numerous boundaries—not just geographical boundaries, but political, cultural, linguistic, religious, ideological, ethnic and economic ones.

This universal mission of the gospel was not lost on later Christians. They too realized that it was a message for the whole world.

Read this hymn by Fredrick Faber:

There’s a wideness in God’s mercy,
Like the wideness of the sea:
There’s a kindness in His justice,
Which is more than liberty.

 

There is no place where earth’s sorrows
Are more felt than up in heaven;
There is no place where earth’s failings
Have such kindly judgment given . . .

 

For the love of God is broader
Than the measures of the mind;
And the Heart of the Eternal
Is most wonderfully kind . . .

 

If our love were but more simple,
We should take Him at His word;
And our lives would be all sunshine
In the sweetness of our Lord.

Source: Frederick William Faber, Faber’s Hymns, 1894, pp. 118-119.