Bible Challenge: Acts

We start this week reading the book of Acts.

Acts is really the second half of the Gospel of Luke.  It is written by the same author to the same audience at about the same time.  It tells the story of the spread of the Gospel in the years immediately after the resurrection.

In the first 8 chapters of Acts we find the story of the Ascension and Pentecost and the calling of Stephen and his stoning to death and the preaching of Philip.

We also get introduced to this character called Saul who is after the church, approved of the stoning of Stephen and is taking away to prison any of the followers of Jesus that he can find.

From the very beginning of the church we see both the power of God and the reaction to the message of God by those who are being challenged by it.

We will hear more about that Saul fellow next week.