Acts - The Early Church

I just finished the outline for the next Bible Study series in my class, which will be "Acts - The Early Church".   It will be interesting to study in detail how the Early Church began.  It will be, at the same time, a good complement to the "Journeys of Paul" Tour. 

As I started reading "The Church Awakening", I'm thinking that maybe studying Acts may reveal areas the church today may need to re-address, particularly in areas related to the original design for the Church.

Also, in studying and reading more about the apostle Paul, I cannot imagine how he must have felt after becoming a Christian and realizing that he had persecuted and watched other Christians being martyred.   But, that was probably what made him such an effective and amazing apostle, for he truly understood what it meant to experience GRACE.

The Acts study will cover almost all of 2011, finishing in November.  I am in anticipation of what God will reveal to us through this study.