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14 mar 2024 · The book of Acts shows how God essentially took a group of fisherman and commoners and used them to turn the world upside down (Acts 17:6). God took a Christian-hating murderer and transformed him into history’s greatest Christian evangelist, the author of almost half the books of the New Testament.
The book’s introduction recounts how the risen Jesus spent some 40 days with his disciples teaching them “about the Kingdom of God” (Acts 1:3), connecting back to the story of Luke’s gospel. There, Jesus claimed that he was restoring God’s Kingdom over the world, beginning with Israel.
1 lip 2024 · Acts directs our focus and attention toward God’s ultimate purposes in redemptive history: the salvation of a people for himself from every nation. In the book of Acts we see the risen and enthroned Lord Jesus at work by his Spirit giving his apostles boldness to preach, adding to their number, and equipping them to establish churches.
We have determined three areas of introduction that can be gathered from Acts: First, evangelization requires some foundational principles. Second, evangelization is strategic in nature. Finally, the Acts of the Apostles reveals practical ways to evangelize that we can put to use in our own life.
Discover what is the purpose of Acts in the Bible, highlighting the early church's growth and the spread of the Gospel. Acts shows how the Holy Spirit empowers believers.
16 sty 2019 · Acts begins with Jesus telling the disciples to stay in Jerusalem and await the coming Holy Spirit which the Father promised to send (Acts 1:4). This promise appears in Luke 3:15-17, but is drawn from the Hebrew Bible as well (Joel 2:28, Jeremiah 31:31-33).
Acts reveals God’s passionate pursuit of his people, beginning with his followers in Jerusalem, expanding to Samaria, then to the rest of the world. The gospel draws people in, constitutes them as the church centered on the grace of Jesus, and then sends them out in mission to the world.
