As we read the gospel records, we read eyewitness accounts of the life and ministry of the Lord Jesus.

In a sense, the gospels are just the beginning of Christ's work. The adventure continues in the

Book of Acts. In this study with

Scott Pauli, we consider the continuing work of Christ through the Holy Spirit, who works through

the apostles in the New Testament Church. Now, let's get in on the adventure.

If you've ever watched a relay race,

one of the key elements of it,

the thing that everybody keeps their eyes on is the transfer of the baton.

Because it's one thing to run your race,

to carry the baton,

but in the transition,

so many times there's a fumbling. There is a pause, an awkward

transition, and it shouldn't be that way, not if it's going to go on and on and on. I want

you to know, in the Christian faith, we receive the baton of faith, the baton of truth,

we carry it. But a big part of our responsibility

is to pass it on. I closed our last study with those very words, pass it on. Don't keep it to

yourself. You know, even in the church world, we can become so everlasting selfish. We become

dead-see Christians that everything flows into and nothing flows out of.

And so that's why people end up becoming so sour and bitter because they're keeping so much

wonderful truth to themselves, without ever allowing themselves to become channels through which

that can flow.

We're studying in the book of Acts.

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