Acts 1:1-26
And now we leave the Gospels and move to the book of Acts – referred to occasionally as the “Book of Acts”, the “Acts of the Apostles”, and my favorite, the “Acts of the Holy Spirit”! I looked online and saw two references that listed 56 and 57 occurrences of the Holy Spirit in the book of Acts. Our Men’s Group is currently studying the work of the Holy Spirit in the New Testament, so reading through Acts at the same time will reinforce our study.
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” (v. 8) From its beginning this verse has been the operational verse for St. Andrew’s Mission Committee. I can recall an early meeting when suggestions were made that Jerusalem back then could be Versailles today, that Judea could be Kentucky, that Samaria could be the United States, and that the “end of the earth” could be the rest of the world. Other suggestions have been that Jerusalem (or Judea) could be the Bluegrass Region. Other groups, I’m sure, have their own counterpart locations for Jesus’ charge. However you view Jesus’ commissioning verse to His disciples – and by extension, to us – it is His will that we carry on His work, wherever we are.
And so we continue our work as Jesus’ and the Apostles’ representatives! Have a blessed RTNT!!
See also: January 1 / Acts 1:1-8; January 2 / Acts 1:9-14; January 3 / Acts 1:15-26