Last week we ended with Acts 19:20 where after Paul’s preaching many brought their magic books and burned them and believed on Jesus Christ. We pick up this week with verse 22 where Paul’s companions leave him alone in Ephesus.

Acts Lesson 30 Study Questions

1.    Paul purposed in the Spirit: Guided by the ____ _____, Paul determined his itinerary. He decided to travel through Macedonia and Achaia, then to Jerusalem, then to Rome.

2.    About that time there arose a great commotion about the Way: When the work was going so well, and when Paul was thinking about leaving Ephesus, another __________ arose. Again, for the third time in Acts (and the second time in this chapter) the Christian movement is called the _____.

3.    Whom all Asia and the world worship is the “everybody does it” argument. “Everybody does this” and “everybody thinks this” are not __________ arguments, but they are __________. Or, “we’ve always done it that way”.

4.    It has often happened in the history of Christianity that when God ______ among His people and they become very serious about their Christianity, that it affects the livelihood of those who _______ in vice or immorality. 

5.    For all the supposed greatness of Diana of the Ephesians, no one worships her today (at least directly). Yet there are millions and millions today who live for and worship Jesus Christ, and who would willingly die for Him. Idols and false gods all have ___________ dates – Jesus of Nazareth lives _________.

6.    God worked mightily in Ephesus, but so did the ______. This may be one reason why Paul wrote so specifically about the __________ battle each Christian faces against powers of spiritual darkness in his letter to the Ephesians (Ephesians 6:10-20).

7.    The mention of Illyricum in Romans 15:19 reminds us that the Book of Acts, as wonderful as it is, is by no means a _________ accounting of all that God did through His people in the first century. There is much, even in the life of the Apostle Paul, that is ____ described – not to mention the life and work of many, many others.

8.    Secundus was a common name for a slave. It meant “_______.” Slaves were often not called by their true names, and the first-ranking slave in a household would often be called ________. 

9.    Now on the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread: This is the first certain example we have of Christians making a practice to gather together on the _______ day of the week for fellowship and the word – though here, it seems they gathered in the _________, because Sunday was a normal working day for them.

10.     Do not trouble yourselves, for his life is in him: Paul, again receiving the gift of ______ from God, sensed that God would ______ this boy from the dead – and God did.

11.    From Miletus he sent to Ephesus and called for the elders of the church: Though Paul knew he couldn’t make a brief visit to Ephesus, he still wanted to pour his _______ into the _________ of the church at Ephesus. So, from Miletus, he called for the elders of the church to come for a special meeting.