How a Spirit-Empowered Church Turns a Crazy World Right-Side Up
The 1st-century church was born into a far darker world than ours. But Jesus promised that the gates of hell would not prevail against His church, and in spite of hell's best efforts the church exploded to the ends of the earth by the time Colossians was written.
If the church today is going to continue the conquest, we need to start taking the Holy Spirit, spiritual gifts, spiritual warfare, and the demonic as seriously as the early church did.
That's why we need Acts — to teach us about Spirit-powered evangelism, church growth, apologetics, giftings, calling, teamwork, guidance, and heavenly warfare, and to show us how the Holy Spirit uses fishermen and tax collectors to turn the world right-side up. From Judea, to Samaria, to the uttermost parts of the earth.