Discussion Questions
(Week commencing Sunday 9th August 2020)
Text: Acts 2:1-41
- Why do you think the outpouring of the Holy Spirit happened was timed for the Jewish festival of Pentecost? Was there significance to that?
- Visitors to Jerusalem heard the believers speaking words of praise in their native (vernacular) tongue. What experience have you had of being in a foreign language country and hearing someone speak your native tongue? How did it make you feel?
- Over the years some Bible teaches have drawn a distinction between the speaking in tongues on the day of Pentecost and other references in the New Testament to speaking in tongues as a prayer/prophetic language. What do you think?
- When you read Acts 2 and all that occurred, are you more like the people in v.12 or the people in v.13?
- What is your experience of an empowering encounter (filling) with the Holy Spirit?
- Why do you think the subject of baptism/filling with the Holy Spirit has been controversial over the years?
- What do you consider the reason or point of being filled with the Holy Spirit is?
