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2 Welcome to the Colorte Methodist Student Bile Smpler! The Colorte Methodist Student Bile is designed specificlly for students in Grdes 7 12 nd is n essentil component to the Colorte: Methodist Confirmtion curriculum. This Smpler contins everything you need to check out the unique fetures of the Colorte Methodist Student Bile. FEATURE CONTENT As students explore this Bile they will encounter feture content tht helps mke sense of key fith-formtion Bile pssges. Ech piece of content includes thought-provoking illustrtion nd interctive prompts. COLABORATE METHODIST STUDENT BIBLE SAMPLER New Revised Stndrd Version Copyright 2016 sprkhouse. All rights reserved. Except for rief quottions in criticl rticles or reviews, no prt of this ook my e reproduced in ny mnner without prior written permission from the pulisher. Write to Permissions, Augsurg Fortress, Box 1209, Minnepolis, MN The NRSV is pulished y rrngement with HrperOne, n imprint of HrperCollins Pulishers. All rights reserved. MARGIN RIBBONS Discover fcts, ponder questions, gin insights, mke connections to worship, nd respond in interctive wys through pproximtely one thousnd mrgin rions throughout the Bile. Unless otherwise noted, scripture quottions re from the New Revised Stndrd Version Bile, copyright 1989 y the Division of Christin Eduction of the Ntionl Council of the Churches of Christ in the United Sttes of Americ nd used y permission. All rights reserved. sprkhouse tem: Crl Brnhill, Bryn Bliss, Andrew DeYoung, Nomi Krueger, Timothy Pulson, Kristofer Skrde, Erik Ullestd Reviewer: Anne Willims Design: J. Zchry Keenn, Dniel Anderson, Tory Hermn Typesetting: Hillspring Books BONUS FEATURES Reders will enjoy comprehensive Bile experience with ccess to mps, suject index, nd engging ook nd section introductions.

3 ACTS 2:34 ACTS 4:5 Acts 2:41-47 The Wy still continued to worship in the temple efore its destruction in 70 CE. This is importnt; it mens the community sw the Old Testment s prophetic, s we do tody. Acts 2:41-47 As descried in the first chpters of Acts, the erly church memers were ll Jewish. These people who herd the gospel converted to following Jesus s wy to e good Jewish people. In fct, this unique community clled themselves tht the Wy! At first, these erly Christins could hve een considered n offshoot of Judism they even continued going to syngogue on Sturdy, the Sth. Eventully, the Wy ecme its own religion, Christinity, nd egn opening the door to Gentiles. This new Christin community hd very tight ond, shring not only possessions nd food ut lso shring their hopes nd joys s community gthered in Christ. Connection is ig del in Methodism. Wht s one wy you feel connected to your church? from the Fther the promise of the Holy Spirit, he hs poured out this tht you oth see nd her. 34 For Dvid did not scend into the hevens, ut he himself sys, The Lord sid to my Lord, Sit t my right hnd, 35 until I mke your enemies your footstool. 36 Therefore let the entire house of Isrel know with certinty tht God hs mde him oth Lord nd Messih, this Jesus whom you crucified. THE FIRST CONVERTS 37 Now when they herd this, they were cut to the hert nd sid to Peter nd to the other postles, Brothers, wht should we do? 38 Peter sid to them, Repent, nd e ptized every one of you in the nme of Jesus Christ so tht your sins my e forgiven; nd you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. 39 For the promise is for you, for your children, nd for ll who re fr wy, everyone whom the Lord our God clls to him. 40 And he testified with mny other rguments nd ex horted them, sying, Sve yourselves from this corrupt genertion. 41 So those who welcomed his messge were ptized, nd tht dy out three thousnd persons were dded. 42 They devoted themselves to the postles teching nd fellowship, to the reking of red nd the pryers. LIFE AMONG THE BELIEVERS 43 Awe cme upon everyone, ecuse mny wonders nd signs were eing done y the postles. 44 All who elieved were together nd hd ll things in common; 45 they would sell their possessions nd goods nd distriute the proceeds c to ll, s ny hd need. 46 Dy y dy, s they spent much time together in the temple, they roke red t home d nd te their food with gld nd generous e herts, 47 prising God nd hving the goodwill of ll the people. And dy y dy the Lord dded to their numer those who were eing sved. PETER HEALS A CRIPPLED BEGGAR 3One dy Peter nd John were going up to the temple t the hour of pryer, t three o clock in the fternoon. 2 And mn lme from irth ws eing crried in. People would ly him dily t the gte of the temple clled the Beutiful Gte so tht he could sk for lms from those entering the temple. 3 When he sw Peter nd John out to go into the temple, he sked them for lms. 4 Peter looked intently t him, s did John, nd sid, Look t us. 5 And he fixed his ttention on them, expecting to receive something from them. 6 But Peter sid, I hve no silver or gold, ut wht I hve I give you; in the nme of Jesus Christ of Nzreth, stnd up nd wlk. 7 And he took him y the right hnd nd rised him up; nd immeditely his feet nd nkles were mde strong. 8 Jumping up, he stood nd egn to wlk, nd he entered the temple with them, wlking nd leping nd prising God. 9 All the people sw him wlking nd prising God, 10 nd they recognized him s the one who used to sit nd sk for lms t the Beutiful Gte of the temple; nd they were filled with wonder nd mzement t wht hd hppened to him. PETER SPEAKS IN SOLOMON S PORTICO 11 While he clung to Peter nd John, ll the people rn together to them in the portico clled Solomon s Portico, utterly stonished. 12 When Peter sw it, he ddressed the people, You Isrelites, why do you wonder t this, or why do you stre t us, s though y our own power or piety we hd mde him wlk? 13 The God of Arhm, the God of Isc, nd the God of Jco, the God of our ncestors hs glorified his servnt c Jesus, whom you hnded over nd rejected in the presence of Pilte, though he hd decided to relese him. 14 But you rejected the Holy nd Righteous One nd sked to hve murderer given to you, 15 nd you killed the Author of life, whom God rised from the ded. To this we re witnesses. 16 And y fith in his nme, his nme itself hs mde this mn strong, whom you see nd know; nd the fith tht is through Jesus d hs given him this perfect helth in the presence of ll of you. 17 And now, friends, e I know tht you cted in ignornce, s did lso your rulers. 18 In this wy God fulfilled wht he hd foretold through ll the prophets, tht his Messih f would suffer. 19 Repent therefore, nd turn to God so tht your sins my e wiped out, 20 so tht times of refreshing my come from the presence of the Lord, nd tht he my send the Messih g ppointed for you, tht is, Jesus, 21 who must remin in heven until the time of universl restortion tht God nnounced long go through his holy prophets. 22 Moses sid, The Lord your God will rise up for you from your own people e prophet like me. You must listen to whtever he tells you. 23 And it will e tht everyone who does not listen to tht prophet will e utterly rooted out of the people. 24 And ll the prophets, s mny s hve spoken, from Smuel nd those fter him, lso predicted these dys. 25 You re the descendnts of the prophets nd of the covennt tht God gve to your ncestors, sying to Arhm, And in your descendnts ll the fmilies of the erth shll e lessed. 26 When God rised up his servnt, c he sent him first to you, to less you y turning ech of you from your wicked wys. PETER AND JOHN BEFORE THE COUNCIL 4While h Peter nd John were speking to the people, the priests, the cptin of the temple, nd the Sdducees cme to them, 2 much nnoyed ecuse they were teching the people nd procliming tht in Jesus there is the resurrection of the ded. 3 So they r rested them nd put them in custody until the next dy, for it ws lredy evening. 4 But mny of those who herd the word elieved; nd they numered out five thousnd. 5 The next dy their rulers, elders, nd Acts 3:6 In your worship services or pryers, when do you do or sy things in the nme of Jesus? Or eting Or y THE GOSPELS AND ACTS c d e Or the rother of Gk rothers Gk Men, rothers Or swelling up Other ncient uthorities red the shre THE GOSPELS AND ACTS

4 2 TIMOTHY 2:16 2 TIMOTHY 4:22 2 Tim. 2:22 Wht do you think Pul mens y youthful pssions? How would you descrie your pursuit of righteousness, fith, love, nd pece? 2 Tim. 3:1-5 Write out pryer, confessing ll the wys tht you hve demonstrted ny of these chrcteristics in your life. Thnk God for forgiveness through grce! est to present yourself to God s one pproved y him, worker who hs no need to e shmed, rightly explining the word of truth. 16 Avoid profne chtter, for it will led people into more nd more impiety, 17 nd their tlk will spred like gngrene. Among them re Hymeneus nd Philetus, 18 who hve swerved from the truth y climing tht the resurrection hs lredy tken plce. They re upsetting the fith of some. 19 But God s firm foundtion stnds, ering this inscription: The Lord knows those who re his, nd, Let everyone who clls on the nme of the Lord turn wy from wickedness. 20 In lrge house there re utensils not only of gold nd silver ut lso of wood nd cly, some for specil use, some for ordinry. 21 All who clense themselves of the things I hve mentioned will ecome specil utensils, dedicted nd useful to the owner of the house, redy for every good work. 22 Shun youthful pssions nd pursue righteousness, fith, love, nd pece, long with those who cll on the Lord from pure hert. 23 Hve nothing to do with stupid nd senseless controversies; you know tht they reed qurrels. 24 And the Lord s servnt must not e qurrelsome ut kindly to everyone, n pt techer, ptient, 25 correcting opponents with gentleness. God my perhps grnt tht they will repent nd come to know the truth, 26 nd tht they my escpe from the snre of the devil, hving een held cptive y him to do his will. c GODLESSNESS IN THE LAST DAYS 3You must understnd this, tht in the lst dys distressing times will come. 2 For people will e lovers of themselves, lovers of money, osters, rrognt, usive, disoedient to their prents, ungrteful, unholy, 3 inhumn, implcle, slnderers, profligtes, rutes, hters of good, 4 trecherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of plesure rther thn lovers of God, 5 holding to the outwrd form of godliness ut denying its power. Avoid them! 6 For mong them re those who mke their wy into households nd cptivte silly women, overwhelmed y their sins nd swyed y ll kinds of desires, 7 who re lwys eing instructed nd cn never rrive t knowledge of the truth. 8 As Jnnes nd Jmres opposed Moses, so these people, of corrupt mind nd counterfeit fith, lso oppose the truth. 9 But they will not mke much progress, ecuse, s in the cse of those two men, d their folly will ecome plin to everyone. PAUL S CHARGE TO TIMOTHY 10 Now you hve oserved my teching, my conduct, my im in life, my fith, my ptience, my love, my stedfstness, 11 my persecutions, nd my suffering the things tht hppened to me in Antioch, Iconium, nd Lystr. Wht persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from ll of them. 12 Indeed, ll who wnt to live godly life in Christ Jesus will e persecuted. 13 But wicked people nd impostors will go from d to worse, deceiving others nd eing deceived. 14 But s for you, continue in wht you hve lerned nd firmly elieved, knowing from whom you lerned it, 15 nd how from childhood you hve known the scred writings tht re le to instruct you for slvtion through fith in Christ Jesus. 16 All scripture is inspired y God nd is e useful for teching, for reproof, for correction, nd for trining in righteousness, 17 so tht everyone who elongs to God my e proficient, equipped for every good work. 4In the presence of God nd of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living nd the ded, nd in view of his ppering nd his king dom, I solemnly urge you: 2 proclim the messge; e persistent whether the time is fvorle or unfvorle; convince, reuke, nd encourge, with the utmost ptience in teching. 3 For the time is coming when people will not put up with sound doctrine, ut hving itching ers, they will ccumulte for themselves techers to suit their own desires, 4 nd will turn wy from listening to the truth nd 2 Timothy 3:14-17 Timothy is encourged to continue in his fith nd to trust wht he hs lerned from Scripture (the ooks we now cll the Old Testment). Timothy would hve known plenty of Scripture y hert, nd the writer wnts him to cll on those pssges in his dulthood too. These ncient words were like guideook for the first Christins, reminding them of God s love nd cre, God s fithfulness nd provision, nd God s promises to the people. In times of struggle or dout, or nytime he needed to e reminded of who he ws, Timothy could trust the inspired Word of God to help him find his wy. John Wesley elieved tht our trditions, reson, nd experiences help us understnd nd use wht we lern from the Bile. Wht s one wy your confirmtion experience is helping you understnd the Bile? wnder wy to myths. 5 As for you, lwys e soer, endure suffering, do the work of n evngelist, crry out your ministry fully. 6 As for me, I m lredy eing poured out s lition, nd the time of my deprture hs come. 7 I hve fought the good fight, I hve finished the rce, I hve kept the fith. 8 From now on there is reserved for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give me on tht dy, nd not only to me ut lso to ll who hve longed for his ppering. PERSONAL INSTRUCTIONS 9 Do your est to come to me soon, 10 for Dems, in love with this present world, hs deserted me nd gone to Thesslonic; Crescens hs gone to Glti, Titus to Dlmti. 11 Only Luke is with me. Get Mrk nd ring him with you, for he is useful in my ministry. 12 I hve sent Tychicus to Ephesus. 13 When you come, ring the clok tht I left with Crpus t Tros, lso the ooks, nd ove ll the prchments. 14 Alexnder the coppersmith did me gret hrm; the Lord will py him ck for his deeds. 15 You lso must ewre of him, for he strongly opposed our messge. 16 At my first defense no one cme to my support, ut ll deserted me. My it not e counted ginst them! 17 But the Lord stood y me nd gve me strength, so tht through me the messge might e fully proclimed nd ll the Gentiles might her it. So I ws rescued from the lion s mouth. 18 The Lord will rescue me from every evil ttck nd sve me for his hevenly kingdom. To him e the glory forever nd ever. Amen. FINAL GREETINGS AND BENEDICTION 19 Greet Prisc nd Aquil, nd the household of Onesiphorus. 20 Erstus remined in Corinth; Trophimus I left ill in Miletus. 21 Do your est to come efore winter. Euulus sends greetings to you, s do Pudens nd Linus nd Cludi nd ll the rothers nd sisters. 22 The Lord e with your spirit. Grce e with you. c 2 Tim. 3:14-17 Timothy s fther ws Greek nd his mother ws Jewish. Tody, we might cll tht multiculturl fmily. 2 Tim. 4:5 The word evngelist mens someone who speks enthusisticlly out nd lives out the good news of Jesus Christ. 2 Tim. 4:19 Prisc lso known s Priscill nd Aquil were Pul s friends nd fellow missionries. The three of them were lso tentmkers. LETTERS OF PAUL Gk of these things Gk slve c Or y him, to do his (tht is, God s) will d Gk lcks two men e Or Every scripture inspired y God is lso Other ncient uthorities red Gul Gk ll the rothers c The Greek word for you here is plurl. Other ncient uthorities dd Amen LETTERS OF PAUL

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