Wilderness Explorer - Compare Early Church and Missionary Expansion

Points for discussion:

a. How did the church leaders/missionaries in both periods prepare for ministry?

b. List specific events that show the out pouring of the Holy Spirit in both periods?

c. List ways in which church members in both periods witnessed to those around them?

d. List specific events in both periods in which large groups of people accepted the gospel and where baptized.

e. Compare the hardships, personal sacrifices, and losses experienced by the New Testament church leaders and Adventist missionaries.

f. Compare the political response and the reaction of the established religious order of the region to the expansion of the church in both periods.

Book of Acts

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