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Teacher's Notes ACTS
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During the fall of 1976 or 1977 Vernon Love (who was preaching for the Clermont, FL church) was driving from Clermont to Lady Lake to teach Wednesday night Bible Class to the remnants of the sound church in Leesburg (5 souls). Meanwhile I was driving from Leesburg to Clermont to attend services. Vernon convinced me that all three parties involved would be better served by me teaching the class in Lady Lake and him staying in Clermont. I had little experience teaching Bible classes at that time and was somewhat reticent at taking the job. My decision changed my life forever. The church at Leesburg has grown (from 6 members to over 60 in the last twenty-two years), as have I. I have taught many Bible classes, preached, done personal work, led singing, directed the worship service and more in these twenty-two years. I attribute my spiritual growth to Vernon Love's strong suggestion for me "to go teach that class!" I have never regretted his "nudge." By 1982-1983 the church had moved from the Robbin's house trailer in Lady Lake to the American Legion Post in Leesburg to our own meeting house (a renovated home, that has since been renovated back into a home) on Michigan Ave. The congregation had grown and the original members had moved or passed away. I rewrote my Acts notes and started the class again. It's now 1999 as I write this introduction. I am teaching the teenagers here at Beverly Shores in our building we have occupied since 1990. They wanted to study a book of the Bible to take a break from the topical studies we had been doing of late. They will eventually figure out that this study is also a topical study as they see how men and women of the first century came to Christ and compare it to their own conversion and the so-called conversions of their denominational friends. I am rewriting these notes for the third time and making only minor changes. The nature of the Bible allows notes to be as effective in 1999 as they were in 1976. In 1976, these notes were used in the old fashioned "verse by verse however long it takes" type study. In 1982, they were presented in 40 consecutive Sunday morning adult Bible classes accompanied by the Willard Conchin workbook: A Systematic Study of the Book of Acts. In this most recent presentation, the notes are being accompanied by the Guardian of Truth Bible Text Book: Acts: a Study by Johnny Stringer. The following commentaries were consulted:
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