Acts 15:3

The church didn’t start with buildings, budgets, or big stages. It started with ordinary people filled with an extraordinary Spirit. In this four-part journey through the book of Acts for youth, Sam Farren explores how the Holy Spirit includes, empowers, and sends us, and how we can be part of the movement that’s still turning the world upside down today. This plan isn’t just about the story of the first church. It’s about how the same story continues – through you, today.

One of the great temptations in discipleship is to assume that the way we have experienced God is the only way, or the best way, that God works.We read Scripture through the lens of our own culture. We form expectations about our faith based on what is most familiar to us.Confusing our culture’s expression of Christianity with Christianity itself.This four-day plan invites you to practice global learning as a vital part of discipleship. Not learning about the global church as a curiosity, but learning from the global church as family.

The Essential 100® Bible Challenge is a simple tool to read through the Big Story of God's Word. The reading plan is based on 50 Old Testament and 50 New Testament passages. Continue with the sixteenth part "The Travels of Paul." ®Produced by American Bible Society in partnership with Scripture Union, Inc.

In 50 carefully selected passages from the Bible, you will discover the essential question Paul asked the Lord while he was traveling to Damascus: "What shall I do, Lord?" Have you ever asked yourself, What difference am I making with my life? On some level, we all struggle to find our own answer to that fundamental question. The search for significance is the underlying motivation for virtually all human activity.