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"What Acts aims to do," writes Barclay, "is to give us a series of typical exploits and adventures of the great heroic figures of the early Church. Although the book never says so, from the earliest times Luke has been held to be its writer." If this is so, then Luke wrote both the gospel and Acts with a purpose of showing how the new faith that had begun so humbly in Palestine had expanded. In...

enables Agabus to foretell the coming famine (Acts 11:28), orders the setting apart of Paul and Barnabas for the momentous step of taking the gospel to the Gentiles (Acts 13:2, 13:4), guides the decisions of the Council of Jerusalem (Acts 15:28), guides Paul past Asia, Mysia and Bithynia, down into Troas and from there to Europe (Acts 16:6), and tells Paul what awaits him in Jerusalem (Acts 20:23). The early Church was a Spirit-guided community. For another thing, all the leaders of the Church were
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