February 3

Stoning Stephen reflection

What did you do for the Stephen project (ie. newspaper, comic, etc.)?

 

The story begins with the disciples gathering to distribute food they choose people filled with the holy spirit. Stephen was among those chosen it was said he was filled with the Holy Spirit. The apostles prayed over him. Stephen spread the word of God and more priests joined the faith. But opposition arose and Stephen was taken, prisoner. Because some people said he was speaking blasphemous. Stephen was arrested and sent to the Sanhedrin where false witnesses testified against they said “This fellow never stops speaking against this holy place and against the law. 14 For we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and change the customs Moses handed down to us.” The Sanhedrin looked at Stephen and said he looked like an angel. Stephen basically summarizes the entire old testament. The Sanhedrin was very mad but then Stephen told them that he saw Jesus seated at the right hand of God. They dragged him out and stoned him to death. 

 

 

2.  What did you do well on the project?  (or what are you proud of and what you want me to look at when I grade it?)

Think I did all of it well I put a lot of work into it and I had fun making 

3.  How do you think you would feel if you were really observing this event?

I would probably wonder what was happening and I would probably suffer from trauma.

4.  Re-read Acts 7:57-58. How would you feel towards Saul

I feel like he should have stopped the stoning of an innocent man. 

5.  What do you think encouraged these early Christians? In other words, why did the early Christians keep up the faith despite the persecution?

I think the fact that Jesus had given a new life in heaven.