Amazing Boldness

Bold & Beautiful

Bold1. Willing and eager to face danger or

adventure with a sense of confidence and fearlessness

2. Requiring or showing fearlessness, daring, and often originality

3. Lacking in modesty or impolitely assertive

4. Standing out and therefore easily noticed

Bold1. Willing and eager to face danger or

adventure with a sense of confidence and fearlessness

2. Requiring or showing fearlessness, daring, and often originality

3. Lacking in modesty or impolitely assertive

4. Standing out and therefore easily noticed

Boldness Is Behavior Born Out Of Belief

Boldness = parrhesia

outspokenness, assurance, courage,

confidence; to act without fear

Amazing Boldness

Bold & Beautiful

Acts 3:6 (NLT)

Peter said, "I don't have any silver or gold for you. But I'll give you what I have. In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, get up and walk!"

Acts 3:16-17 (NLT)

"Through faith in the name of Jesus, this man was healed —and you know how crippled he was before. Faith in Jesus' name has healed him before your very eyes. "Friends, I realize that what you and your leaders did to Jesus was done in ignorance.

Acts 4:8-10 (NLT)

Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, "Rulers and elders of our people, are we being questioned today because we've done a good deed for a crippled man? Do you want to know how he was healed?

Acts 4:8-10 (NLT)

Let me clearly state to all of you and to all the people of Israel that he was healed by the powerful name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, the man you crucified but whom God raised from the dead.

Acts 4:13 (NLT)

The members of the council were amazed when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, for they could see that they were ordinary men with no special training in the Scriptures. They also recognized them as men who had been with Jesus.

Bold Facts

• God Gives Ordinary People Extraordinary Boldness

Acts 4:13 (NLT)

(The leaders) could see that (Peter and John) were ordinary men with no special training in the Scriptures.

Ordinary = Idiotace

unlearned, unschooled, ordinary

Bold Facts

• God Gives Ordinary People Extraordinary Boldness

• Real Boldness Will Amaze the World

Acts 4:13 (NLT)

The members of the council were amazed when they saw the boldness of Peter and John.

Bold Facts

• God Gives Ordinary People Extraordinary Boldness

• Real Boldness Will Amaze the World

• Spiritual Boldness Comes From Knowing Christ

Acts 4:14 (NLT)

They also recognized them as men who had been with Jesus.

2 Corinthians 5:20 (NLT)

We are Christ's ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, "Come back to God!"

Acts 4:20 (NLT)

We cannot stop telling about everything we have seen and heard.

Amazing Boldness

Bold & Beautiful