Acts is therefore targeted in the first place to the church. Only in a secondary sense is it meant to evangelize unbelievers or to offer a defense of Christianity to those outside the movement. It seeks primarily to build up an increasingly Gentile Christian community by showing them through the story of God’s working in the past what it means to be the church and how they are to live in light of that pattern.14 Given this aim, Luke spotlights the theme of God’s plan to bring salvation in its fullness