Acts 4:1-41 ~ Civil Disobedience 101 + PDF Discussion Guide

Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. embodied the concept of civil disobedience. What is civil disobedience? How it is different from armed rebellion or breaking the speed limit? Civil disobedience is the refusal to comply with certain laws out of conscience. Civil disobedience is sometimes defined as having to be nonviolent to be called civil disobedience. Romans 13:1 teaches: “be subject to the governing authorities”. Yet in Acts 4, we have an example of Christian civil disobedience. When is it right to disobey the government? (Rhetorical).