Acts 6:8-8:40
Key Verse: 7:59

* STEPHEN'S SPEECH ON GOD'S HISTORY

1. Who was Stephen? How is he described? What were the charges brought against him. Why? What was his attitude before the Sanhedrin? (8-15)

2. How did God call and train Abraham? What was Abraham's response? What did God promise him? What was God's purpose? (7:2-8; Ge. 12:23)

3. How did God use the jealousy of the patriarchs to accomplish his own purpose through Joseph? What was God's purpose in sending his people to Egypt? (9-16)

4. How and why did Israel's situation in Egypt worsen? How was Moses saved and trained? What was God's purpose for him? Why was he rejected? What did he do? When and how did God call him? Use him?

5. What was God's great purpose in training and delivering his people? (Ex.19:5,6) What was the living word and the promise Moses received and passed on to his people? (30-38)

6. How did the people respond to Moses and the Living word which he taught them? (39-43) How did God punish them? What did Stephen teach about the temple and its purpose? (44-50) (Mk. 11:17) For what did Stephen rebuke the people? Why? Why do we need a sense of history?

* THE SPIRIT OF MARTYRDOM (7:54-8:3)

7. How did they respond to Stephen's rebuke? Why? What did Stephen do when they stoned him? Describe his faith in Jesus. (55,59-60) What can we learn? How is his prayer like that of Jesus? (Lk. 23:34)

8. What was Saul's part in Stephen's stoning? What did he do after this? Why? How did God use the blood of Stephen to change the church and spread the gospel? What is the "spirit of martyrdom?"

* PHILIP'S EVANGELISM (8:4-40)

9. Who was Philip? Why did he go to Samaria? How did God work there through him? Who was Simon? What did he do? What can we learn from the Apostles' encounter with him?

10. Why did Philip leave a large ministry and go to the desert? What kind of man was the Ethiopian eunuch? Describe Philip's one-to-one Bible study with him. What can we learn here? (26-40)