30 years that changed the world!!

“How was Jesus able to equip a group of uneducated men and women to do the things He did, and to be like him in such a way that when he sent them out, they changed the course of human history?”

Worked outwards from a hot centre

Jerusalem – Acts 2 Samaria – Acts 8 Antioch – Acts 13 Philippi – Acts 16 Thessalonica – Acts 17 Corinth – Acts 18 Ephesus – Acts 19 Rome – Acts 27

“oikos” - household”

Relational Network

Jerusalem – Acts 2:2; 5:42 Damascus – Acts 9:11 Caesarea – Acts 10:24 Philippi – Acts 16: 15; 31 Corinth – Acts 18: 7,8 Ephesus – Acts 20: 20 Rome – Acts 28: 30

Large and Small Gathered and Scattered Attractional and Missional We need to embrace the “and” not “either or”