Bright City Our Church: Becoming Family Through the Book of Acts | Seeing the Light - Part 1 | Jess Connolly
Mar 6, 2026
A lively look at Acts and what it means for today’s church. Stories and humor set up questions about who we are becoming. Conversation about the promise of the Spirit, being witnesses, and what Spirit-formed church life looks like. Honest talk about doubt, cost, and following Jesus’ promise rather than strategy.
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Acts As A Prophetic Mirror For Today
- Acts can be read as a biography of the early church and as a prophetic mirror for who the church today can become.
- Jess frames a nine-week Acts series to ask each week: Who are we becoming as the Spirit forms our church?
Use A Threefold Series To Shape Church Formation
- Structure spiritual formation: three weeks seeing the Spirit, three weeks on internal church formation, three weeks on shining outward.
- Use the repeated question "Who are we becoming as the Spirit forms our church?" to shape teaching and practice.
Belief Settles Slowly Through Repeated Encounter
- After resurrection Jesus spent 40 days ministering to the disciples, showing belief takes time to settle.
- Jess notes multiple appearances were necessary to convince some disciples that Jesus was truly risen.