World Mandate 2018 - Part 2 (Acts 3)

Acts 3

11 While the man held on to Peter and John, all the people were astonished and came running to them in the place called Solomon’s Colonnade.

12 When Peter saw this, he said to them: “Fellow Israelites, why does this surprise you? Why do you stare at us as if by our own power or godliness we had made this man walk?

join
speak
start
GO

qualified people
Peter & John

help a needy man (evangelism)

witness to the Jews at the Temple (discipleship)

13 The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus. You handed him over to be killed, and you disowned him before Pilate, though he had decided to let him go.

Israel
inward focus

church
outward focus

14 You disowned the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a murderer be released to you.

systems (means) to exalt the sinlessness & character of Christ

systems (end) to exalt my rights and my character

15 You killed the author of life, but God raised him from the dead. We are witnesses of this.

16 By faith in the name of Jesus, this man whom you see and know was made strong. It is Jesus’ name and the faith that comes through him that has completely healed him, as you can all see.