The Church in Acts 2 is small, immature, and incomplete. But for that very reason it serves as the perfect example of the indispensable first principles upon which everything else must rest. They are a devotion to:

Although we often talk of the ‘offer’ of the gospel, the truth is that, at it’s heart, it’s a demand – God demands that we repent and turn to Christ. That is the substance of Peter’s sermon on the Day of Pentecost. And as he makes that demand he makes two things clear:

The opening verses of Acts 2 describe the seminal event in the book in which God comes to indwell his people as once he indwelt his Temple, and before that the Tabernacle. In doing so Jesus …

Before his ascension the last command Christ gave his followers was to wait because in waiting we learn to:

Luke choses, as the turning point in his two-volume series, the moment when Christ ascended into heaven. That decision sets the scene for the rest of the book of Acts. The story starts here because …

As we begin a new series on the book of Acts we begin with an overview of the whole text to find,