Amazing Boldness

Spiritual boldness comes from knowing Christ. In other words, the more Jesus builds your faith, the more boldness you will see in your life. Take inventory of your relationship with Christ this week and see what steps you need to take immediately in order to grow your faith in Christ. Those steps could be more prayer time, increasing your time reading God’s Word, or seeking a mature believer to mentor you. The Book of Acts is full of examples of amazing boldness as the first church began the task Jesus entrusted them with and advanced His kingdom into all the nations. During this series, read the Acts YouVersion reading plan at http://www.youversion.com/reading-plans/acts. As you read, be intentional about finding examples of bold living that you can follow in your own life and share with others.

• What’s one of the most amazing acts of boldness that you’ve seen?

With your Bible or YouVersion, read Acts 4:1-22.

In this passage, Peter and John exhibit such boldness before the Sadducees that it tremendously impacted those around them.

• What can you learn about being bold for Christ from Peter and John’s example in Acts 4?

• Peter and John were ordinary people who spoke and acted with boldness. How do you think being bolder for Christ would impact you and your relationship with God?

• In what areas of life do you most need amazing boldness?

• Boldness is behavior born out of belief. What beliefs about yourself do you need to change that are keeping you from living with amazing boldness?

• Describe a time when you were bold. What was the outcome of your boldness and what did you learn from it?

• Peter and John’s boldness amazed the Sadducees. Who could benefit from your being bold for Christ?

• How would you rate your current level of boldness? What’s keeping you from being bold?

• Who would you describe as being amazingly bold for Christ? What about their boldness inspires you?

• As Jesus builds your faith, your boldness will also grow. What steps do you need to take immediately to grow your faith in Christ?

Here are some specific things you can do this week that will help you develop amazing boldness in your life.

5-Day Micro Devotional:

• Ask God to reveal what He would like boldness in your life to look like.

• Thank God for the bold people He has placed in your life who have helped you grow your faith in

Christ.

• Ask God to develop amazing boldness in all areas of your life and in your faith in Christ.

• Ask God to deepen your faith in Him so that boldness will result out of your faith.

• Pray for those you feel would benefit in their faith by your boldness. Ask God to give you the boldness you need to impact them.