Pastor Blaik J. Westhoff,
Acts 9:23-43
Sermon Questions:
1. What images come to mind when you think about “raising people”?
2. What are the three R’s of raising from scripture?
3. Where did Peter get the authority to perform these two miracles?
4. Have you been used by God to help someone who was paralyzed (maybe by fear, maybe by guilt, maybe
by something else) to move again into serving Jesus?
5. Have you been used by God to bring someone or something back to life in the Body of Christ?
Further Study:
Matthew 8:5-13 (NIV)
1. Describe a time when you felt unworthy of the Lord’s presence?
2. What made the centurion so confident that Jesus could heal his paralyzed servant?
3. Has God ever used you to speak healing into the life of another person?
4. Jesus tells those following “that many will come from the east and the west, and will take their places at the feast with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.” Of whom is speaking about?
5. In v13 Jesus tells the centurion “Go! Let it be done just as you believed it would.” Do you believe that disciples of Jesus have this same authority to speak healing?