The Expanded Kingdom

The Expanded Kingdom As starting off reading pages 193-231, the expansion of Christ’s Kingdom through the experiences and ministries of the apostles start off with the Acts: Volume 2 of Luke, he informs the reader of three things and they are: “first reliable traditions about Jesus and the early Christian movement have been handed down by eyewitnesses, second Luke has made careful investigation of these experiences and reports and third, he dedicates his work to the reader’s knowledge and growth in the Christian faith” (194). In the heading Initial Witness to Christ in and around Jerusalem (1:1-2:47), talks about Jesus legacy and he left his own experience of his personal presence. “Jesus plainly and publicly died, his physical departure …show more content…
199-200). The second outcome involved “fellowship”, which may be taken as including both “breaking of bread and prayer” (200). That whole act was basically about the works of God and his amazing spirit. In Spreading the Message, Gathering Opposition (3:1-7:60), it mentioned the three themes that dominated the Acts of the opening chapters and they were the “continuing work of the miracles and message, life together in the community of believers, and conflict” …show more content…
Jesus had led his followers to get the message he was trying to send to them. The apostles were delivered by the angels (5:19). Also the wonder-working power spread from the apostles to at least a few additional stalwart believers among them Stephen (6:8). The result of the message did not have such a good meaning left behind it. This particular act ended with Stephen’s stoning in the same city where Jesus was crucified (p.204). From the Acts of 8-12, it was a change that had taken place. In the heading Philip (8:5-13, 26-40), he was one of the seven chosen for the food distribution that was overseeing in the church. Philip shared the apostles with Stephen that was in Jerusalem. “Philip’s preaching produced many of the same signs that have accompanied Jesus’s ministry” (p.209). The acts 13-28 talks about how the continuation of the spread of God, to the land and the people. From the heading First Missionary Journey (13:1-14:28), during the apostolic times someone different came to outweigh the country. The first century the Jews made their home in Antioch. Secondly, it became the primary church of the earliest Christianity, and this is because all of Paul’s journeys began in Antioch. Also it speaks on all three of the journeys that Paul went through. Paul “wrote the Epistle to the Romans in the early AD 57 during his