All right, we're in a new book study today, Acts chapter one. It's an exciting book, so let's take our Bibles and go to Acts chapter one. And what I typically do when we begin a new book study together is I give a little bit of some highlights, some bullet points, an overview of the book so we can kind of understand what we're about to read. And so for you note takers,

the writer of the book of Acts is Luke. Now, that is the same one who was inspired by the

spirit to write the gospel that bears his name, the gospel of Luke. Luke is the only

Gentile writer in the Bible. And God used him to pen the gospel of Luke and the book of Acts. And in some ways,

Acts is a continuation of Luke's gospel. It's like a sequel. Luke by trade was a physician.

We learned from Colossians chapter 4 verse 14, and he became a traveling companion of Paul's.

In fact, he appears to join Paul in the story in the

book of Acts in chapter 16 on one of Paul's missionary journeys that begins at Troas.

That's where Luke seems to join him because Luke in writing the account of the book of

Acts goes from the pronoun they to the pronoun we in the book of Acts

and so it seems to suggest that he inserts himself now in

the narrative in the story so he goes from they to we

and that was when pronouns actually meant something

yeah and that was when pronouns actually meant something.

Yeah.

So, they and we, and he includes himself in that.

Those are not his pronouns.

That's just how he then inserts himself in this story. Okay, let's move on.

The book of... Isn't it good, though, when you come to church, kind of get to center yourself

in the Lord and like, okay, all the craziness in the world, let's get centered on the truth again.

Okay. So the book of Acts written sometime around 60 to 69 AD. Acts and the Gospel of Luke both are addressed to Theophilus.

You'll see his name mentioned in verse 1. Theophilus in Greek just translates lover of God.

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