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A thorough study of the content, purposes, principles, and applications of Acts. The course emphasizes the role of the Holy Spirit in the Early Church and today. Attention is given to the geographical, numerical, cultural, and theological growth of the Church from Jerusalem to Rome. The journeys of Paul are examined as the background for his epistles.

The writer of the Gospel of Luke was not an apostle. We know this from Luke 1:1–3. Here we learn that Luke was not an eyewitness to Christ’s ministry on earth. Likewise, nothing in Acts suggests its writer can claim authority as an apostle. Luke fits this description, while Peter, Paul, and other writers do not. • Believers from the early church to the present have accepted Luke as the author of both the third Gospel and Acts. • Luke and Acts are organized alike. Study the chart, and notice the similar
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