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Why is Acts so important? Acts is the only biblical book that chronicles the history of the church immediately after Jesus’s ascension. As such, it provides us with a valuable account of how the church was able to grow and spread out from Jerusalem into the rest of the Roman Empire. In only three decades, a small group of frightened believers ...
Mar 14, 2024 · Acts 1:8: “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”. Acts 2:4: “All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.”. Acts 4:12: “Salvation is found in no ...
T he book of Acts forms a bridge between the Gospels and Paul’s epistles. Almost every commentator on Acts maintains its purpose is to tell the story of the birth and growth of the church. While the birth of the church is found in Acts (though not in the way most think) Luke’s purpose was far different. The goal of this study is to examine ...
Jul 10, 2014 · Author and Purpose. Acts is a sequel to the Gospel of Luke. Both were written by Luke, a physician who traveled with the apostle Paul. Luke’s purpose for writing his Gospel (see Luke 1:3–4) applies to Acts as well: to give an “orderly” account of the early church after Christ’s resurrection. Acts is a historical account of how the ...
Jul 1, 2024 · This article is part of the 10 Things You Should Know series. 1. Acts is not primarily about the acts of the apostles. Luke, the author of the book of Acts, didn’t actually give his book the title, “Acts of the Apostles.”. That name was given to the book by the church in the third century. And while the book of Acts certainly tells the ...
Some of you will recognize that I have written on the Book of Acts before. 3 In this earlier effort, I outlined a number of reasons why the Book of Acts is important. This time, I would like to approach this matter from a slightly different perspective. I would like to suggest what it would be like if there were no Book of Acts.
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The book of Acts is about Jesus leading his people through the Spirit to go out into the world and invite all nations to live under his reign. The story will begin with that message spreading in Jerusalem (chs. 2-7), into the neighboring regions of Judea and Samaria full of non-Jewish people (chs. 8-12), and from there out to the nations and the ends of the earth (chs. 13-28).
