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Seen, Known, Loved: Leaning on the Holy Spirit in Us and the People Beside Us, A Study of the Book of Acts

A seven-week study, beginning March 3 in the FREE First 5 app.

After Acts 1, we don’t see Jesus physically walking the earth. Can you imagine the loneliness the early Church would have felt after Jesus ascended into heaven and this new reality set in?

But God had a plan and promise for them. And the same is true for us today: Because of the Holy Spirit, we are never completely alone and never without guidance.

The book of Acts reminds us that the same God who built His global Church, starting with just a handful of disciples, is still moving in our lives right now.

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Today’s Teaching

What Was the World Like During the Time of Acts?

Kelley Brown

Day: 3 | Plan: Acts 2025

Start Here: Acts 4:18-21

Key Verse: Acts 4:20 (ESV) "for we cannot but speak of what we have seen and heard."

The book of Acts unfolds against the backdrop of the vibrant and diverse Mediterranean world during the first century. The Roman Empire was in control of much of the Middle East, Europe and Asia at this time, so the early Church was born in a cultural melting pot of Greco-Roman customs, Jewish heritage, and ...
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