Our blogger for Acts is Mark Wright. Take it away, Mark!
Acts is my personal favorite book of the Bible, its where we learn that following Jesus isn’t a spectator sport. Its an all or nothing journey that involves us as believers to take action and not just ooh and ah over they greatness of Jesus.
Acts begins with Jesus heading back to heaven and the disciples going to Jerusalem to wait for the Holy Spirit to come. I can’t imagine what this wait was like for them. If you think the anticipation for Christmas morning was bad when you were a kid this tops that by a mile. With most things that we’ve gotten in our lives we’ve had some sort of expectation of what we were getting. Even if we didn’t know exactly we had a good idea, but the disciples had no idea what to expect or even exactly when to expect it. Yet they all stayed loyal and made a decision to stay the course.
I love how the author of Acts, makes sure to mention that Mary, the mother of Jesus, and his brothers were there as well.
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