Anchor Sunday School Class

Anchor Class,

Sally and I are looking forward to being with you Sunday. To prepare, read chapters 27 and 28 in the book of Acts. Can you believe we began this Journey through Acts in early April, almost 10 months ago? We will cover both chapters, so I need you to read through these chapters several times, as we will not have time to go verse by verse. We will ask two questions of the text:

1. Why devote such a long section of the book to a description of a voyage and a shipwreck, and so many seemingly unimportant details.

2. Why did the book end so abruptly? After spending two chapters getting Paul to Rome, why didn’t Paul tell us the results of the trial? What happened to Paul after this?

I believe the answer to the first question is, Luke wanted the readers to see and understand some specific character traits of Paul’s that had not been fully developed earlier. We will discuss these character traits and attributes that we see  in Paul in order to fully understand this amazing man of God. But hopefully, we will not leave it there, because each of these are traits that each of us should model in our own lives. We will save the answer to the second question until Sunday.

See you then.
Blessings
Jim