Praise God the first Raising the Bar Kisumu kicked off today, numbers swelling from 20 booked 48 hours ago to 40 here for the beginning of the programme this afternoon. Sammy started us off with a wonderful overview of Acts, showing us very clearly that the camera focus throughout the book is on JESUS and that it’s not so much as a how-to church manual but a historical narrative of the preaching of the gospel of Christ in the power of the Spirit to all nations. I particularly appreciated the big lessons:
- God’s mission heart
- The ministry focus on preaching Christ crucified
- We don’t change the Word to fit our world, the Word is the change-agent in the world
- God’s sovereignty in a hostile world, even using persecution as the means of spreading the Word
Sammy particularly recommended David Cook’s Teaching Acts – the introduction to which (including diagrams and all sorts of useful overview on Acts) is available as a PDF here.
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