In our culture, we're familiar with great endings and stories.

In a good story, you're dropped into a new world.

The music begins, the bad guy has been defeated.

And you watch, as all the tensions get tied up neatly.

The guy and the girl finally confess their love,

there's that final line that leaves us with a feeling of satisfaction.

Chloe, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

But if you've ever read the Book of Acts,

it seems to have the opposite effect.

Paul arrives in Rome.

He's under house arrest waiting for his trial before Caesar.

What's going to happen to Paul?

What's going to happen to the church communities that he started?

And Luke writes this.

So the last sentences is Book of Acts.

Are for two whole years.

Paul stayed there in his own rented house.

He welcomed everyone who came to see him.

And he proclaimed the kingdom of God and taught about the Lord Jesus Messiah

with all boldness and without hindrance.

And that's how the book ends.

I'm John Collins.

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