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A Walk Through the Book of Acts: Chapter One
The series continues
After an introduction and some background information, today we finally get into the Book of Acts itself. If you haven’t read the previous installments, you can do that here. In the introduction I said that if you’ve never read a single page of the Bible you should start with the Gospel of Luke before moving on to the Acts of the Apostles, but if you haven’t done that we can still press ahead.
That’s because reading the book of Acts without first reading the Gospel of Luke is a lot like watching The Godfather Part II without having ever seen The Godfather. It’s perfectly fine on its own and you can follow the story with no problem, though you will miss out on some crucial information. You should read them both (and watch both movies).
On second thought, it’s nothing at all like watching The Godfather Part II before The Godfather, because as amazing both films are, the stories of Vito and Michael Corleone are not at all comparable to the story of Jesus and the early Church. Forget I made the comparison; hopefully, my pastor won’t read this.
Acts is indeed a sequel of sorts, though. Luke says so himself in the very first verse of Chapter 1 when he tells the person to whom he addressed both books (a man named Theophilus) that in his former account (his Gospel)…
