My cheap used copy of “Steely Dan: The Complete Guide to Their Music” just came in the mail yesterday. Why did I order this book? Now I’m having to go back through a bunch of CDs, listening for voices and instruments and phrases, etc. that I hadn’t fully appreciated before. I know this will pass, but right now it’s an acute fever. Is it just me, or does love for music grow stronger as we get older? Seems to me we understand music better as we age. Whaddaya think?
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What follows is 20 true-or-false questions over the New Testament Book of Acts. It was part of a recent exam I gave just to be sure my students were reading the Bible. For card-carryin’ Campbellites, this should be like an English teacher doing the “Word Power” quiz in the Reader’s Digest. Take a look:
1. The first several chapters of the Book of Acts take place in and around the city of Jerusalem.
2. Though not one of the original twelve, a man named Barsabbas became an Apostle of Jesus.
3. Peter once coupled the events of his day with an oracle found in the Book of Joel.
4. All of the initial converts to Christianity were Jews or Jewish proselytes.
5. More than one person in the Book of Acts is named Ananias.
6. Pure in form and spirit, the earliest Christian movement never struggled with ethnic division.
7. The martyrdom of Stephen sparked a persecution against Christianity in the city of
Jerusalem.
8. The earliest followers of Jesus preached the message of Christianity from the Jewish
Scriptures, which came to be known as the Old Testament.
9. When confronted by the resurrected Christ, Saul was on his way to Jerusalem.
10. The two most prominent human characters in Acts are the Apostles Peter and Paul.
11. The Book of Acts features baptism as an integral part of conversion to Christianity.
12. In Acts, Paul makes only one trip to Jerusalem.
13. Paul was a Roman citizen.
14. Paul and Barnabas had such a strong disagreement, they split up their missionary team and
went separate ways.
15. Some of the early Christians were also members of the Pharisee group.
16. According to Acts, Jewish synagogues were important to the spread of early Christianity.
17. Like Jews and Christians, the residents of the ancient city of Greece worshipped only one deity.
18. Acts contains only one account of the conversion of Saul (also called Paul).
19. Paul was born in Jerusalem.
20. The Book of Acts reports a sea voyage.
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3 comments:
Have fun "reeling in the years"
So where do we send our answers professor?
Hey, Steve. "Reelin in the years" indeed.
Test answers can be sent to my current email, i.e., the one connected to with this blog.
I think your interest in catchy musical phrases began with your early morning bouts with the guitar and "Smoke on the Water" chords. Remember how you played that EVERY morning before school? Mom never complained, and we came to expect it! We knew it was just your version of "swapshop!"
Your sister
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