{"id":3386,"date":"2012-10-21T22:21:25","date_gmt":"2012-10-21T22:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/?p=3386"},"modified":"2012-10-21T10:24:23","modified_gmt":"2012-10-21T10:24:23","slug":"what-is-the-purpose-of-the-book-the-acts-of-the-apostles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/21\/what-is-the-purpose-of-the-book-the-acts-of-the-apostles\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the purpose of the book&#8211; &#8220;The Acts of the Apostles?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luke\u2019s primary purpose is to edify Christians by recounting how God\u2019s plan, coming to fulfillment in Jesus, had continued to unfold in the history of the early church. Perhaps Luke\u2019s most important contribution is precisely this careful linking of the apostolic proclamation of the Word of God with the word that Jesus both taught and fulfilled. The \u201cWord of God\u201d thus binds together Luke\u2019s two volumes, as the salvation that the angel first announced on the night of Jesus\u2019 birth on a Judean hillside (Luke 2:10-12) is brought finally to the capital of the Roman Empire. Luke thus presents \u201cthe things that have been fulfilled among us\u201d (Luke 1:1) as a continuation of the salvific history of the Old Testament, showing how this history reaches its culmination in Christ and flows from him through the Spirit-led apostles into a new phase, the church as the eschatological people of God. By doing so, Luke gave to Theophilus, and continues to give to every Christian who reads his two volumes, an assurance that faith is solidly grounded in the acts of God in history and that the message we believe is the same message sent from God. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monergism.com\/Acts.html\" rel=\"external\" target=\"blank\">read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Also: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monergism.com\/directory\/link_category\/Sermons-By-Book\/Acts\/\">Bunch o&#8217; Acts resources<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/21\/what-is-the-purpose-of-the-book-the-acts-of-the-apostles\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"25\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"recommend\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luke\u2019s primary purpose is to edify Christians by recounting how God\u2019s plan, coming to fulfillment in Jesus, had continued to unfold in the history of the early church. 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