Jesus Christ builds His Church through the power of the Holy Spirit, beginning in Jerusalem at Pentecost and extending the gospel throughout the Roman world through the witness of the apostles.

Key Text: Acts 1:8

The book of Acts is the first volume of church history. It records the story of the church from its explosive beginning on the Day of Pentecost to the imprisonment of Paul at Rome, one of its greatest missionaries. During those three decades, the church expanded from a small group of Jewish believers gathered in Jerusalem to embrace thousands in dozens of congregations throughout the Roman world. Acts describes how the Spirit of God superintended, controlled, and empowered the expansion of the church. Indeed, the book could well be called “The Acts of the Holy Spirit Through the Apostles.”

Qn. "Why study Church History?"

Ans. So that we can be encouraged to survey and to learn from the lives of Christians in the past and the progress of the church ever since the ascension of Christ.