PAUL'S SECOND MISSIONARY JOURNEY

Acts 15:1-18:22
Key Verse: 17:3

* THE JERUSALEM COUNCIL (15:1-41)

1. Why were Paul and Barnabas sent to Jerusalem? (15:1-5) What was the evidence of God's work
in Antioch? (4,12) How was the dispute resolved? (6-35; See 11:18) Why was this issue such a serious one?

2. Why did Paul and Barnabas separate? (36-41) What does this show about each of them? Who did Paul take with him?

* PAUL'S VISION OF A MAN OF MACEDONIA (16:1-40)

3. Where did they go first? Why? (15:40,41; 16:1,4,5) Who was Timothy? What kind of person was he? (1,2; 2 Ti. 2:2) Why did Paul take him?

4. Trace Paul's journey to Troas. Where did they want to go, and how did God lead them? Describe the vision Paul had. What was his decision? Why was this an important turning point? (6-10)

5 Trace his journey to Philippi. What kind of city was this? How did he begin his pioneering work there? How did God open the door? What can we learn from Lydia? (14,15)

6. Why were Paul and Silas beaten and put in prison? (16:16-23) How did they react to this? (25) How could they be free, even in prison? (cf. 2 Co.3:17) What happened? (26-28) How did this jailer become a Christian? What can we learn here from Paul? From the jailer?

* THE LORD SPOKE TO PAUL IN A VISION (17:1-18:22)

7. In Thessalonica, and later in Berea, where did Paul begin? What did he preach? (17:1-3,11) How might Paul have explained about the suffering and resurrection of Christ? Why was this his main message? What does it mean that Jesus is the Christ?

8. What happened as a result of Paul's preaching? (5-9) How were the people in Berea different from those in Thessalonica? (11)

9. Why was Paul distressed at the atmosphere in Athens? (17:16) What did he do? (17) How did Paul end up in the Areopagus, and what did he proclaim there? (18-31) What did he tell them to repent of ? (29,30) What, in his message made some sneer and touched others? (32)

10. Who did Paul meet and stay with in Corinth? How did he live there? (18:1-4) What was his main message to the Jews? (5) What did he do when they rejected him? (6,7) Why and how did the Lord encourage him? (8-10) Where and why did he get a haircut? (12-22)