Introduction to Acts
Introduction to Acts - From our Series - Acts: The Story Continues...
Acts Series Introduction: The Story Continues
Jesus did not finish His work in the Gospels... He began it.
Many people think of the Book of Acts as the story of the early Church—its growth, its struggles, and its mission. But Acts is something deeper than that.
In Acts 1:1,Lukewrites that his Gospel recorded all that Jesusbeganto do and teach. That means the life, death, resurrection, and ascension of Christ were not the end of His work... they were the beginning.
The Book of Acts shows us what Jesus continues to do through His Church by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Luke, a careful historian, wrote both his Gospel and Acts as a two-part account based on eyewitness testimony and careful investigation. What we are reading is not myth or legend, but a reliable record of real events—showing us how the risen Christ is actively working in history.
But Acts is not only about what happened then.
Before His ascension, Jesus had already prepared His disciples for what was to come. He told them to abide in Him, promised that the Holy Spirit would come, and prayed that they would be united in the life of God. In Acts, those promises begin to take visible form as the Spirit is poured out and the Church is born.
The Church is not built on human effort, strategy, or religious activity.
It is formed and sustained by the life of God within His people.
As we walk through Acts, we are not just studying the early Church—we are learning how to recognize the work of Jesus in our lives today.
The same Spirit that was promised, poured out, and at work in the first century is still at work in the Church now.
Scripture:Luke 1:1–4, Acts 1:1–8, John 14–17
Series: Acts: The Story Continues...