Aim: To embrace Christ through our budding study of Acts.
Doctrine: The book of Acts focuses everyone's attention on Christ. The Lord preached through His chosen apostles, so as to spread the gospel everywhere (for all ages) through His church.
Exegesis: Important foundational principles of the book of Acts: it is rooted in objective and verifiable history (vv. 1-2a); it emphasizes the synergy between the Holy Spirit and God's ministers (v. 2b); it stresses the miraculous presence of Jesus (to and with His church) (v. 3).
Further application: How the church should think about the book of Acts today: the same God described in this tome is as active as ever, still, but now more thoroughly in His ''perfected,'' ''ordinary'' means of grace.
Key verses: vv. 1-2 ''The former account I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach, until the day in which He was taken up, after He through the Holy Spirit had given commandments to the apostles when He had chosen...''
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Rev. Mark Henninger received his Masters of Divinity from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois, and he has been Pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Peoria, Illinois for more than 30 years.