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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...

or for its spontaneous joy. It may be hated and persecuted for its revolutionary lifestyle, exposing the hollow values and destructive selfishness of the society it seeks to serve: but it certainly cannot be ignored.1 Evidently, Luke wants us to see the connection between prayer and power in the conclusion to this section: “When they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken” (Acts 4:31). The early church faced opposition from the very beginning, and Luke wants
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