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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 The Apostolic Church In Front | Workbook: Men and Women in the Church, Part 1
Lesson 4, Activity 25

In Front | Workbook: Men and Women in the Church, Part 1

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[Record your answers in the workbook provided at the beginning of this course.]

In the year AD 305, Roman officials recorded their findings from a raid on a house church in the North African city of Cirta. Among the objects found were:

Two gold chalices, six silver chalices, six silver urns, a silver cooking-pot, seven silver lamps, two wafer-holders, seven short bronze candle-sticks with their own lights, eleven bronze lamps with their own chains, 82 women’s tunics, 38 capes, 16 men’s tunics, 13 pairs of men’s shoes, 47 pairs of women’s shoes, and 19 peasant clasps.

Source: Gesta apud Zenophilum 3, in Optatus: Against the Donatists, translated and edited by Mark Edwards, 1997, p. 154.

  1. What might we guess about the male and female population of early churches based on this record?