experience of salvation. On this view of things, the book of Acts was intended as an account of Christian beginnings in order to strengthen faith and give assurance that its foundation is firm. Obviously, a book written with this aim has an evangelistic purpose, but the scope of Luke–Acts stretches beyond material that is purely evangelistic. If we adopt this view of Luke–Acts, it becomes highly unlikely that the primary purpose of Acts was to provide some kind of political apologetic for Christianity.