The Book of Acts is the book of the continuing Christ. What Christ began in the gospel records,

he continues in the book of Acts. In the first part of Acts, chapters 1 through 7, we joined

the adventures of what the Holy Spirit was doing through the apostles in the early church.

This work was primarily focused in Jerusalem.

The second section of Acts, however, advances beyond Jerusalem to Judea and Samaria.

In this section of our study, we see the power of the gospel on full display,

changing the lives of those who hear it.

Let's join Scott now as the adventure continues.

Does anyone out there remember an old-fashioned roadmap, what they actually look like?

We used to keep an atlas in our car, and all the young people are saying,

now what on earth is that?

And now we have it all on our mobile device, don't we?

We have these GPSs, and the little person that lives in your phone tells you exactly where to turn and where to go.

And by the way, they're not always right.

And on occasion, I thought, I wish I had an old-fashioned map in front of me to look

at this. I don't think this is really the best way. But I want to tell you that if you're going to

find your way, and certainly if you're going to show somebody else the way, you have to have

something to show them. We're talking about becoming a gospel guide, guiding people to God.

And we learned from Phillips example in Acts chapter number eight that you have to begin by

following guidance yourself, so lost people can't help other lost people. You have to be found

before you can point anybody else in the right direction. And we also learned that you have to begin looking for people along the way, people that

you can point to the Lord Jesus. He did that in Samaria. He does that for the Ethiopian

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