Remembering authors like Luke and reading what they wrote, it's kind of fun to think of the way things must have been for the young church in the first century. While it must have been exciting to be part of the Church as it was getting started, it was also a time for wild variations on the original story. Authors like Luke, who was an associate of Paul, set about giving fellow believers a reliable account that was free of the flights of fancy that many attached to it.