Dr. Pothana's Teaching

3.  Come: Acts 1:8 Gathered Church:
Empowerment in Jerusalem
 Go: Acts 8:1 Scattered Church: Dispersed
Everywhere
 Go Beyond: Acts 13:3-5 The Pauline Apostolic
Sendoff
 The Church throughout history repeats this
tension between pastoral gathering and
apostolic scattering
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4.  Acts 2-4

5. A story of Urban Mission?
 What are the two urban mega-churches in
the Acts story?
 What are the major cities in the Acts
progressions?
 Has Christianity always been an urban
religion?
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7.  The Jewish Jerusalem Church
 The Diaconal Breakthroughs to the Gentiles
 Philip
 Stephen
 The Pauline Webs
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8.  Peter and Cornelius
 Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch
 Barnabas and Antioch
 Listen to the Spirit, expect the visions,
follow the unusual voice of God
 Don’t miss the turning points

9.  Paul’s wandering apostolic band
 Vs the local church, the council of Jerusalem
 The same tensions occur throughout history.
 Bishops vs abbots
 Faith missions vs denominational structures
 Prophets, evangelists and apostles are mobile
 Pastor-teachers and pastors of pastors (bishops) are
local/stationary
 Orders and preaching friars vs Parish Priests
 To the ends of the earth vs solving the problems of
the people
 Apostolics are goal driven, mobile, high authority
 Pastorals are community driven, stationary, consensus
based authority

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13. The idea of households as the centre of
evangelistic growth through the book of Acts.

14. Dr. Pothana
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