Acts Bible Reading Challenge

Challenge yourself to achieve 1000 points by completing your choice of the following activities. Each activity has a certain number of points depending on how challenging it is. Some activites may be particularly suited for children and families, while others may be more suited for adults and teens. One of the best parts of a challenge is doing it together. Find another family to do it with, or involve your Sunday School or CYC.

Read - 400 Points

Read through all of Acts for 400 points! Below you can find a printable tracker for each chapter so you can check them off as you go!

Bible Journal - 500 Points

Use a notebook or a Bible Reading Journal to take notes while you read. You can order a prepared reading journal on Amazon (link below) or use just a regular notebook. A page of suggested questions to ask is also available below. Share your thoughts or favourite verses with your friends and family or on Social Media.

Bible Art - 500 Points

Choose a verse that exhorts or encourages you during your Bible readings and illustrate it. Share your creations here: Facebook Bible Journaling Group

Bible Marking - 100 Points

As you read through this book, mark all the occurrences of “believe” or “believed”. Who or what was being believed and what did it result in?

Language - 150 Points

Do a word study on “church”. You can find a worksheet below that explains how to do a word study. Share what you learn with your friends and family or on Social Media.

Literature - 200 Points

Read through any of the following books and share a quote or two with family and friends or on Social Media. Links to Booksellers below.

A Time to Seek by S.J. Knight
Paul the Apostle by W.H. Boulton
Peter – Fisher of Men by Alfred Norris
The First Century Ecclesia by J.B Norris

Media - 300 Points

Search for this talk on Christadelphian Bible Talks and Exhortations:

The Life and Teaching of the Apostle Paul by David Nichols

Write a short review to share what you learn.

Memory Verse - 250 Points

Learn at least one of these selections by heart:

Acts 1:11
Acts 4:12
Acts 17:11
Acts 20:35

Dig Deeper - 400 Points

Learn about ancient Roman merchant ships.

Drama - 300 Points

Act out some of the events in the book of Acts and share some pictures!

Acts of the Apostles Drama

Hymn Study - 100 Points

Hymn 372: Who is on the Lord’s side?

Sing this hymn. You can find a link below for the music. Write out the hymn (worksheet below), and see if you can find Bible passages that relate to this particular hymn.

Food - 100 Points

Eat like an ancient Roman:

Six Ancient Roman Recipes

Timeline - 500 Points

Make a timeline for the book of Acts. You can download a poster of the book of Acts from The Bible Project that might be helpful with this. There is also Bible Art Chronology Page in the More Resources below.

Geography - 300 Points

Make a map of Paul’s journeys.

This website includes a blank map for tracing Paul’s journeys: Paul’s Journeys Maps

The Heart - 300 Points

T H I N K ON T H I S :

“Now his work was done; the faith had been proclaimed from Jerusalem to Rome, and maybe even further west; and the old man, aged beyond his years, fell asleep. His life, and his death, illustrate what he meant when he wrote, ‘For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain’. Ever since the day when the light streamed about him on the road to Damascus, Paul had lived for Christ. His own words best describe that life. ‘I have been crucified with Christ; yet I live; and yet no longer I, but Christ liveth in me; and that life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith,, the faith which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me,’ In that life he bore about in the body the dying of Jesus, that ‘the life also of Jesus may be manifested in his body’.

To him, death was gain. The crucifiying was over, and he sleeps in Jesus until the time comes for him to realize his life’s aim, and be ‘forever with the Lord’.

W.H. Boulton, Paul the Apostle

Thank you to Julie S, Karen P, Bailey M, Tanya W, Lindsay B for the contributions to this Challenge!