questions
1) Read Acts 8:26-40. What is your initial reaction to this text and/or to the sermon?
2) Where do you see yourself in this story? Who do you relate to?
3) The Ethiopian eunuch does not fit the neat categories of religious, racial/ethnic, or gender/sexual identities, and yet, Philip welcomes him with open arms into th Church. What does this teach us about the Church? About God?
4) Not only is the Ethiopian eunuch welcomed into the Church, but he's sent back to his home to essentially start a branch of the Church there. What does this teach us about who God calls to leadership within God's kingdom?
5) Where do you see similarities and/or differences between this early vision of the Church and the modern Church?
2) Where do you see yourself in this story? Who do you relate to?
3) The Ethiopian eunuch does not fit the neat categories of religious, racial/ethnic, or gender/sexual identities, and yet, Philip welcomes him with open arms into th Church. What does this teach us about the Church? About God?
4) Not only is the Ethiopian eunuch welcomed into the Church, but he's sent back to his home to essentially start a branch of the Church there. What does this teach us about who God calls to leadership within God's kingdom?
5) Where do you see similarities and/or differences between this early vision of the Church and the modern Church?