A Walk Through an Amazing Book: Exploring the Acts of the Apostles
A new series
During the summer of 2022, I wrote a series titled “Not Many Mighty” in which each episode looked at a specific biblical figure and showed that rather than being saintly heroes in stained glass, they were regular people just like you and me. After looking at those individuals, my plan was to explore a book of the Bible (like my friend Paul Walker did in his superb series on the New Testament Letter of James). But then my mom got sick, Springsteen went on tour, I had to move to East Texas…basically, life intervened.
Now that I am settled in my new home in the woods, however, I am returning to that original plan. I’ve considered several books of the Bible but keep coming back to the one that besides being my favorite is also one that is crucial to understanding the Church as we know it: the Acts of the Apostles. Why that one, you may ask? Consider the following.
You’re reading through the New Testament from start to finish (good on you for that; too few do these days) and you come to the final verse in John’s gospel:
“Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.” (John 21:25 NIV)
