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In this book, Paul Walaskay discusses Luke’s description of the early church, its leadership, and its struggles as a people of God amid competing religious claims. He helps the reader understand Luke and his contemporaries and examines the first-century church’s situation in light of today’s issues.

asked if he is the Messiah, John demurs saying, “I baptize you with water; but one who is more powerful than I is coming.… He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire” (Luke 3:16). Likewise in the book of Acts, Peter called people to repentance, baptism, and forgiveness. Peter, however, added two new dimensions to John’s baptism. First, baptism is done “in the name of Jesus Christ”; those who are baptized are brought under the power and authority of Jesus. Second, baptism brings the gift of
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