The Acts

Our Sunday School class this term is about the Acts of the Apostles, which also could be called, Acts of the Holy Spirit.  Talk about an exciting, action-packed book, this is it.

Here's a few highlights (!!! marks withheld):

• Two separate folks, separately lie to the Church and the Holy Spirit and are struck dead
• A guy falls 3 stories after falling asleep- and has his life restored
• Prison doors miraculously swing open
• A dead girl has her life restored.
• Holy Spirit like a wind and flames of fire appear
• People speak in tongues
• 3000 souls saved 
• A lame man is healed
• Ethnic tensions erupt and are handled
• First Christian martyr  (After Jesus) (Boy that didn't take long!)
• Philip shares the Christ with the Ethiopian eunuch
• Saul is CONVERTED- yep now that's a change!
• PETER heals a man and a woman
• Peter has a vision welcoming Gentiles into the Christian Church (Cornelius converts)
• Foreigner Christians send financial support
• Paul travels all over the known world to mixed receptions (Why would WE expect otherwise ourselves)
• Council at Jerusalem seals the deal on those crazy Gentile Believers 
• Paul speaks in Athens (@ Areopagus)
• Paul gets in trouble w Jewish leadership (again)
• Paul finagles a FREE Missions trip to Rome 
• The book abruptly ends- without a conclusion (Hmmm, what might that mean?)

Now here's a book worth reading, and at only 28 chapters, it's a pretty quick read.  Luke's details mean that it could be verified or debunked easily at the time (between about 30 and 62 AD).

Give it a try.