Acts was written by Luke, who wrote it to his friend Theophilus. It covered 32 years of the early church that began at 33 A.D., and concluded around 65 A.D.
The book of Acts is in two chief parts. Acts 1-9 is the first one, and Acts 10-31 is the second one. First one covers early church in Jerusalem that exploded in it, and outside of it through the power of the Holy Spirit that Christ promise they will receive on day of Pentecost. That day the believers went from 120 to 3,000. When Peter first time preached the Gospel after Christ ascended into heaven, every nation under heaven was in Jerusalem, and they heard Peter preach the gospel in their own language. On that day those thousands of believers got saved, baptized, received gift of the holy spirit, and became disciples of Christ. That was the four cylinder engine that made one church in Jerusalem explode, while it was surrounded by wolves.
In the second part of Acts it is about Paul who spread the gospel throughout the Gentile world, and in book of Acts there are a lot of good concepts that was the original plan from Christ to spread what He did for us, but somehow got forgotten, or lost throughout the churches transition.
Salvation, baptism, receiving the Holy Spirit, and discipleship was never meant to be seperated. Yet somehow they were to where churches today do one cyclinder, and not all 4 together. We read what the 4 cylinder engine did for the one church in Jerusalem that was surrounded by wolves.
In Acts it is good to break it down to see what they did to apply the Master's original plan along with today's technology to spread the Gospel faster than it has ever been. The churches mission has never changed, and it is to find that one last lost sheep. This world is massive, and not all of it has not been discovered yet.
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