THE BOOK OF ACTS: The Life of Jesus Continued in the Early Church with the Rev. Dr. Allen Hilton

Event time: 
Thursday, January 11, 2024 - 7:30pm to 8:30pm
Thursday, January 18, 2024 - 7:30pm to 8:30pm
Thursday, January 25, 2024 - 7:30pm to 8:30pm
Thursday, February 1, 2024 - 7:30pm to 8:30pm
Thursday, February 8, 2024 - 7:30pm to 8:30pm
Thursday, February 15, 2024 - 7:30pm to 8:30pm
Thursday, February 22, 2024 - 7:30pm to 8:30pm
Thursday, February 29, 2024 - 7:30pm to 8:30pm
Event description: 

Zoom | Jan. 11 – Feb. 29 | 7:30 pm Eastern | 8 Sessions

Join the Rev. Dr. Allen Hilton for eight sessions occurring on Luke’s intro to the Book of Acts. It summarizes his whole 24-chapter Gospel — Jesus’ birth, childhood, teaching, preaching, wonder-working, passion, death, and resurrection — as “all that Jesus began to do and teach.” (Acts 1.1) To our author, the brilliant life and ministry of Jesus was just the beginning — a start that the church would continue as Christ’s body in the world. The well-told stories of Acts recount the ways a small group of Jewish men and women in Jerusalem grew and expanded to move the Way of Jesus into cities around the Mediterranean Sea and, ultimately, beyond. This class will offer a close reading of this fascinating and faith-forward account.

The eight sessions will occur on January 11, 18, 25, February 1, 8, 15, 22, and 29. After attending all eight sessions, participants will receive a Certificate of Participation. 

After attaining a Yale Ph.D. in New Testament Studies, Rev. Dr. Allen R. Hilton taught New Testament on the faculty of Yale Divinity School in the late 1990s and early 2000s. He then turned to church ministry, adding a decade of popular Bible teaching and preaching to lay people and pastors in churches across the country. From 2016 to the present, Dr. Hilton flies around the U.S. to help people build community across lines of political, theological, and ethnic difference as the Executive Director of House United (non-profit) and the Director of the Institute for Missional Studies at Covenant Presbyterian Church (USA) in Austin, TX. His books include a scholarly treatment of Acts 4 called Illiterate Apostles: Uneducated Early Christians and the Literates Who Loved Them and A House United: How the Church Can Save the World. Dr. Hilton lives in Austin with his beloved wife Liz and has two sons at liberal arts colleges in CT.
 

Register at: THE BOOK OF ACTS: The Life of Jesus Continued in the Early Church*

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Admission: 
Free but register in advance

Contact: 
Yale Youth Ministry Institute
megan.lukens@yale.edu