Dear Friends,
So begins the Acts of the Apostles, the wonderful story of the beginnings of the Church to which Jesus left his work in the world. In this second book, believed to have been written by the author of Luke’s gospel, the writer chronicles the years after Jesus’s ascension.
And what a story it is! The coming of the Holy Spirit. Conversions of individuals and conversions of thousands. Persecution, arrest, martyrdom. Two apostles with very different ideas of what one must be and do to be a Christian. And miracles, miracles, miracles!
Come for the next five Sundays to Adult Christian Education for an introduction to the Book of Acts, special study of some of the stories, and discussion of what that early Church can tell us today about being the Body of Christ.
Alleluia! Christ is risen!
Mtr. TJ