Acts 2:22–46 - 2 October 2020 - Covenant Hope Church Dubai

OBSERVATION

Read Acts 2:22–46
1. What happened in the previous context?
2. What ideas/words/themes are repeated?
Acts 2:22–36
1. Who is speaking and who is he addressing?
2. Who and what is mentioned? What argument is being made?
3. How is it being made?
Acts 2:37–47
1. How does the crowd respond?
2. How is the community described?

How would you divide up Peter's sermon?
1. What points are being made?
2. What is "the definite plan and foreknowledge of God" (v.23)? If it was God's plan why are they guilty?
3. How do the quotes support his argument?
4. What is the conclusion?
What does it mean to be "cut to the heart" (v.37)?
What does it mean that God's promises are for "everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself" (v.39)?
What is descriptive and what is prescriptive from v.42–47? How do you decide?

What difference do the truths of Peter's sermon make for today and everyday?
In what ways are we (personally and corporately) falling short of the example in v.42–47?
How can the truths of this passage help us grow into a community like theirs?
Praise God for making Jesus both Lord and Christ!