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The church in our time easily loses sight of her mission to witness to the resurrected Christ. Studying Acts identifies us with the early church and the way the Gospel shaped her as she began witnessing in Judea and continuing, in concentric circles, “to the end of the earth.” Acts reminds us that the story of the church remains incomplete—that there continues to this day an “Acts 29.” We face...

Where these things are present—namely, a conviction about the death and consequent resurrection of Jesus Christ, the active establishing of Jesus’ heavenly kingdom, and the confessed need for the power of the Holy Spirit—world mission and evangelism will follow. But where these things are absent, the church will inevitably fail to do what Jesus has commissioned us to do. It may seem almost incredible to us that the disciples could get things so utterly wrong at this point, but they
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