The Bible in a Year

New Testament

Acts 24 to Romans 6
Read this coming week:
Apr 18 Josh 8‐9, Ps 100, Acts 24‐25 Apr 19 Josh 10‐11, Ps 101, Acts 26
Apr 20 Josh 12‐13, Ps 102, Acts 27 Apr 21 Josh 14‐15, Ps 103, Acts 28
Apr 22 Josh 16‐18, Ps 104, Rom 1 Apr 23 Josh 19‐20, Ps 105:1‐25, Rom
2Apr 24 Josh 21‐22, Ps 105:26‐45, Rom 3‐4 Apr 25 Josh 23‐24, Ps 106:1‐
23, Rom 5‐6

Reading Questions
For next week you’re reading Acts 24 to Romans 6.
Answer the following:
• Why does Paul appear before Felix?
• What does Agrippa say to Festus after Paul’s trial?
• What were the soldiers planning to do to Paul and
his fellow prisoners after the shipwreck?
• What is Paul doing when we see him last in Acts?
• Is Paul in Rome when he writes Romans?
• Romans 2 is the source of the cliché “letter vs.
spirit of the law”, how does it function in its
original context?
• As Paul uses it, how would you define the term
“righteous”?
 • Why is Jesus’ resurrection important to Paul?

Paul’s Letters
Paul is the most prolific writer of Epistles (letters) within
the Christian canon with 13 letters. Both due to the fact
that Paul started many of the first Christian churches
and due to the fact that his letters are included in the
Christian canon, Paul’s effect upon Christian theology is
clear.

This effect is found even now, some 2000 years after

Paul’s ministry. Martin Luther came to his “Gospel
revelation” through reading a passage in the book of
Romans, and Paul’s definitions of theological terms like
justification and resurrection are still being argued by
contemporary scholars such as NT Wright and EP
Sanders.

Paul’s letters also form the earliest recorded Christian

literature. The book of I Corinthians dates to as much
as 40 possible years before the first Gospel (Mark) was
ever written.

As you approach the letters of Paul, for this reason, it

may be interesting to consider what your impression of
Christianity might be without the Gospels and Acts, but
only learning what Christianity is through Paul’s writing.
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