The Book of Acts provides a crucial window into the life of the early church. Without it we wouldn’t know how we got from the Jesus of the Gospels to the churches of the letters, we wouldn’t know much about the Paul who wrote so much of the New Testament, and we wouldn’t know how God’s saving purposes spread from being centered in Israel and Jerusalem to encompass the world.
About the author: Alan Thompson is the Head of the New Testament Department at Sydney Missionary and Bible College.
