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The Acts of the Risen Lord Jesus: Luke’s Account of God’s Unfolding Plan is unavailable, but you can change that!

When the book of Acts is mentioned, a cluster of issues spring to mind, including speaking in tongues and baptism with the Holy Spirit, church government and practice, and missionary methods and strategies. At the popular level, Acts is more often mined for answers to contemporary debates than heard for its natural inflections. Alan Thompson argues that Acts is an account of the “continuing...

What major themes, issues or debates come to mind when someone mentions ‘the book of Acts’ to you? The answer to this question in everyday conversations about Acts inevitably includes a cluster of issues related to anything from the charismatic movement (speaking in tongues as a sign of receiving the Spirit, baptism of the Holy Spirit as a second blessing), church government and practice (congregational versus presbyterian church government, the responsibilities of deacons, infant/household
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