Chapter 11

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KEYS TO UNDERSTANDING

• "Circumcised believers"  (or those of the circumcision") -- Jewish believers.  Descendants of Abraham who were under God's covenant of circumcision were God's special people until Jesus came and gave a new covenant for all nations.  It was difficult for Jews to accept that uncircumcised Gentiles were their equals before God simply because the they believed in Jesus.  This problem continued to plague Gentile churches.   Antioch:  A city approximately 300 miles north of Jerusalem.  After Rome and Alexandria it was the most important city in the Roman Empire.  The church in that city was the first predominately Gentile church.
  

CONTENTS OF THE CHAPTER
The miracles of chapter 10 convinced Peter that he should preach to the Gentiles and that they were to be baptized and accepted in the church on the basis of their faith in Jesus.  The Jewish church in Jerusalem, however, had not seen those miracles and questioned Peter about his conduct.
Peter recounted the events that led to his preaching to Cornelius.  When he reported the fact that the Gentiles were baptized in the Holy Spirit just as the apostles had been, the Jewish brethren were convinced.
When word of the conversion of Gentiles was spread, some of those who had been scattered by the persecution in Jerusalem began preaching to Greeks as well as to Jews.  A great church made up mainly of Gentiles was thus founded in Antioch.  The Jerusalem church sent Barnabas to encourage them and he went to Tarsus to get Saul to help him.  In       Antioch disciples were first called Christians.
When a world-wide famine was predicted, Christians in Antioch sent relief to brethren in Judea by Barnabas and Saul.

NOW READ ACTS CHAPTER 11 CAREFULLY BEFORE YOU ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS.

QUESTIONS
1.  Have you read Acts, chapter 11?  Yes ______  No ______  (Check one)
2.  Who told Peter to go with the messengers from the Gentiles (v. 12)? _________________________
3.  Whom did Peter take with him to the house of Cornelius?  Six _______________ .
4.  When Peter reported that the ______  _______   had come on the Gentiles, Jewish brethren were satisfied.
5.  The church in Jerusalem sent ___________  to Antioch and he brought ___________  from Tarsus to help.
CONCERNING SALVATION:
6. The angel said that Peter would bring ________ by which Cornelius and his house would be saved (vs. 14).
7.  When Jesus was preached in Antioch, a great  number of people ______________  and turned to the Lord.
CONCERNING THE CHURCH:
8.  News of the converts in Antioch came to the _________   of the church in Jerusalem (vs. 22).  (This shows that the church was not a building, but a group of people who had believed in and obeyed Jesus Christ.)
9.  When Barnabas and Saul met with the church they _______   many people (26).  (Primary work of church)
10.  The disciples were called ________________________  first in Antioch.
11.  When the church knew there was to be a famine, they determined to send relief to the ______________  in Judea (vs. 29).  (Caring for the needs of the saints was another work of the church.)
12.  It was sent to the ________________  for distribution (vs.30).  (churches had elders.)
13.  It was sent by:  ___ The Red Cross  ___ The United Fund  ___ Two of their own, Barnabas and Saul.
       (Churches in the Bible did their own work and never contributed to other institutions to do it for them.)