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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...

(4) It was a reverent Church; in verse 43, the word which the Authorized Version correctly translates as fear has the idea of awe in it. It was said of a great Greek that he moved through this world as if it were a temple. Christians live in reverence because they know that the whole earth is the temple of the living God. (5) It was a Church where things happened; signs and wonders were there (verse 43). If we expect great things from God and attempt great things for God, things happen. More things
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