Acts 5:29-31 Peter and the other apostles replied: "We must obey God rather than men! The God of our fathers raised Jesus from the dead-- whom you had killed by hanging him on a tree. God exalted him to his own right hand as Prince and Savior that he might give repentance and forgiveness of sins to Israel.

Three Responses to the Resurrection:

1. The Unfaithful Response -___________ the ____________.

2. The Faithful Response-_____________ the ____________.

3. The Messy Response- Let's ____________ and ______________.

Scripture Readings
Acts 5:29-42
1 Peter 1:3-9
John 20:19-31

Take It With You!

Here we will offer thoughts and meditations on the message to help us as we contemplate and discuss and wrestle with what we are hearing.

As God's people on reformission, we too are to function as reporters, telling the good news about Jesus in a way that is both scripturally accurate and culturally accessible. So it is vital that we continually look for ways of presenting the gospel that will be best suited for the people we encounter so that they can journey toward Jesus.

-Mark Driscoll, The Radical Reformission

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When witnessing disciples take the Scipture in hand, they have grasped the place where the message that meets the sinner's central need sounds forth; that is, that creative Word from which our creative life flows- God's Word, Christ became flesh. In dealing with the power of God, packaged in the Bible as it is, the believer must realize that this creative Word speaks to us out of the words of the biblical page. Since the words of the Bible are packed with this creative power, we will listen to them without demanding such a comprehension as would free us from the need to listen afterwards to other particular passages. Every desire to put ourselves above the Word instead of under it, to master the Word instead of allowing it to master us, implies a failure to see that God creates by His Word and that we are the ones being created anew.

Perceiving that, however, the witnessing disciple will delight in the Word of the Lord, always delving into it with one eye on the needs of those who call out in despair from the surrounding culture for a new-to be sure, genuine- source of identity, security, and meaning.

-Robert Kolb, Speaking the Gospel Today