Acts highlights

• (1) the work of God through the exalted Jesus who grants the presence of the Holy Spirit;
• (2) the significance of Jesus who is Israel’s Messiah and the Savior of the world and who directs the expansion of the church;
• (3) the work of the Holy Spirit as transforming power present in the lives of the followers of Jesus and their communities;
• (4) the identity of the church as the community of God, comprised of Jews and Gentiles who are followers of Jesus;
• (5) the mission of the church whose leaders take the gospel to cities and regions of the Roman Empire in which Jesus has not yet been proclaimed as Messiah and Savior;
• (6) the historical events and the persons who played a role in the expansion of earliest Christianity.