Theology of the Acts of the Apostles

Who are the people of God? Luke''s purposes in the Acts of the Apostles are to identify the church, to establish the legitimacy of its gospel and to demonstrate that God was an active force in history. He wanted to show that the communities of Jewish and Gentile Christians are the true heirs of God''s promises to Israel. He gives the history of the early church from the last decades of the first c...