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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...

unanswerable defence of Christianity is the individual Christian. Second, they had the defence of an utter loyalty to God. If it was a question of choosing between obeying other people and obeying God, Peter and John were in no doubt as to what course to take. As the writer H. G. Wells said, ‘The trouble with so many people is that the voice of their neighbours sounds louder in their ears than the voice of God.’ The real secret of Christianity lies in that great tribute once paid to the Scottish
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