Luke the Historian: The Book of Acts (Biblia.com)

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Acts forms an indispensable link between the accounts of Jesus’ life (Gospels), their preaching in Acts (Kerygma) and their interpretations and applications in the New Testament letters. The early church developed and circulated two collections of NT writings: (1) the Gospels (four) and (2) the Apostle (Paul’s letters). However, with the rise of the Christological heresies of the second century,...

I think the experience of Pentecost set a pattern, which God reproduced in the experience of different racial and geographical people groups, to show and confirm to the believing Jewish church that God Himself had fully and completely accepted a new group. The Spirit’s manifestation in Acts (i.e. Pentecost) is thereby theologically different from the Corinthian tongues. This text cannot be used to demand a Corinthian-like experience to confirm salvation (cf. 1 Cor. 12:29–30, which is a series of

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