In this twentieth century, there is a paramount urge to get to basic fundamentals. The age, characteristically materialistic, challenges the church to emphasize spiritual values. It is an easy matter to drift with worldly influences and forget Him in whom there is Life. The book of Acts furnishes us with abundant material which is vital to hold us true to the tenets of the faith. Paul in reviewing his life found eternal satisfaction in the fact that, “he had kept the faith.” We do well to remember that Paul was a “chosen vessel” to bear the Gospel message to the Gentiles. Today God needs messengers to bear the faith to an age of ease-loving, pleasure-seeking, people who are growing more and more indifferent to the Gospel claims upon them. For this reason, the writer loves to search out the teaching recorded in Acts to be applied to the building of God’s church.



(This article originally appeared in The Brethren Evangelist in 1940).