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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 | Workbook: Vertical and Horizontal Ministry, Part 1
Lesson 4, Activity 16

In | Workbook: Vertical and Horizontal Ministry, Part 1

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

The apostles continued Jesus’ ministry, but they took it in some new directions. Some scholars say that Jesus’ ministry was vertical, while the apostles’ ministry in Acts is horizontal. Read the passages in the table below and guess at what we might mean by these terms.

JesusThe Apostles
While Jesus was having dinner at Levi’s house, many tax collectors and sinners were eating with him and his disciples, for there were many who followed him. (Mark 2:15)Paul . . . said goodbye and set out for Macedonia. He traveled through that area, speaking many words of encouragement to the people, and finally arrived in Greece. (Acts 20:1-2)
When the Pharisee who had invited him saw (the woman washing Jesus’ feet), he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would know who is touching him and what kind of woman she is—that she is a sinner.” (Luke 7:39)Philip went down to a city in Samaria and proclaimed the Messiah there . . . When the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent Peter and John to Samaria. (Acts 8:5, 14)
Jesus asked him, “What is your name?”“Legion,” he replied, because many demons had gone into him. And they begged Jesus repeatedly not to order them to go into the Abyss. (Luke 8:30)(Paul and Barnabas), sent on their way by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia and sailed from there to Cyprus. When they arrived at Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God. (Acts 13:4-5)
  1. Having looked at the passages above, what do you think is meant by Jesus’ ministry being vertical and the apostles’ being horizontal?