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15 unique facts about the book of Acts.
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Each includes a challenge question.
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Acts is volume two of Luke's two-part
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work. Source: Luke 1:14 and Acts 1:1
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connect the two books as a continuous
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Challenge: How can your life become the
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next chapter in God's mission?
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Acts spans about 30 years of church
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source from Jesus ascension AD3033 to
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Paul's house arrest in Rome AD6062.
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Challenge. If someone recorded your last
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30 years, what would God's work look
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Acts is the only New Testament book that
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chronicles the birth of the church.
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Source: Acts 2, the day of Pentecost.
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Challenge: How are you contributing to
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the growth of the church today?
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Acts records at least 40 miracles.
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Source: healings, exorcisms, visions,
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resurrections, angelic rescues, and
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more. Challenge: Do you still believe
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God works miraculously in your life?
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The Holy Spirit is mentioned nearly 60
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times in Acts. Source: Acts highlights
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the Spirit's leadership more than any
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challenge. Where do you need to slow
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down and let the Holy Spirit lead you?
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Acts follows a geographical mission
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pattern. Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria,
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the ends of the earth. Source: Acts 1.8
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provides the outline of the whole book.
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Challenge: What is your next step in
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taking the gospel outward?
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Acts introduces Paul, the most
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influential missionary in Christian
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history. Source: Acts 9, Saul's dramatic
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Challenge: How has Jesus transformed you
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as radically as he transformed Paul?
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Acts includes the longest speeches in
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the New Testament outside the Gospels.
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Source: Peter's sermons, Steven's
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defense, and Paul's missionary speeches.
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Challenge: Which message in Acts speaks
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most clearly into your life right now?
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Acts contains the first recorded
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Christian martyr, Steven.
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Source: Acts 7, Steven's vision and
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Challenge: What level of courage do you
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want God to build in you?
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Acts shows how persecution helped spread
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Source: Acts 8. Believers scattered and
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preached everywhere they went.
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Challenge: How can God use your
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hardships to push you into greater
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Acts contains multiple we sections
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showing Luke was traveling with Paul.
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Source Acts 16:10 25 271 Luke switches
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to we as an eyewitness.
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Challenge who is traveling with you
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spiritually in this season of life.
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Acts highlights major transitions in the
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source. Jews to Gentiles, temple to
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house churches, apostles to elders
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challenge. What transition is God
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inviting you to trust him with right
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now? Acts is filled with the
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supernatural, angels, visions, dreams,
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and the spirit's voice.
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Source examples include Acts 10,
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Cornelius, Acts 12, Peter's rescue, Acts
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Challenge. Are you alert to the ways God
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may be speaking and guiding you?
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Acts ends without finishing Paul's
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story. Source: Acts 28. An intentional
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open ending signaling the mission
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continues through us.
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Challenge. What unfinished mission is
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God asking you to step into?
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Acts shows the unstoppable nature of
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God's kingdom. source. From persecution
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to prison, nothing slows the gospel
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Challenge what obstacle in your life
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needs to be surrendered to God's
