1. The issues
1.1 Back to the Bible?
1.2 Why Luke?
1.3 Luke?
1.3.1 Who?
1.3.2 When and where?
1.3.3 What?
1.3.4 Why?
1.4 The readers?
1.5 Which Church?
1.6 'Church'
1.7 The issues
1.8 Our goal
2. Origins and purpose
2.1 Between Easter and Pentecost
2.2 The apostles
2.3 Apostles and the nature of the Church
2.4 Apostles and the origin of the Church
2.5 Apostles and the purpose of the Church
2.5.1 The apostles (the Church) in the Gospel
2.5.2 The Church (the apostles) in Acts
2.5.3 Extending the apostolate
2.6 Conclusions
3. Jesus: the Church modeled
3.1 Jesus paralleled
3.1.1 The Holy Spirit
3.1.2 Teaching and preaching the good news
3.1.3 Healing and exorcising
3.1.4 Parallels in prayer
3.1.5 Parallel qualities
3.1.6 Jesus, Stephen and Paul
3.1.7 Conclusions
3.2 The Church: Jesus modelled
3.2.1 The Ascension story repeated
3.2.2 The structure of Acts
3.2.3 The invitation of the end of Acts
3.3 Conclusions
4 Salvation and the Church
4.1 Salvation
4.1.1 The scope of salvation
4.1.2 The nature of salvation
4.2 Salvation and the Church
4.3 The Church dispenses salvation?
4.4 Conclusion
5 The Church as the people of God
5.1 The Church and Judaism
5.2 A synagogue?
5.3 A sect?
.4 'The Way'
5.5 Ekklesia
5.6 A household
5.7 In sum . . .
6 Luke's Pentecosts
6.1 A Jerusalem Pentecost?
6.2 Post-Easter experiences
6.3 Luke's Pentecosts
6.4 So far . . .
6.5 What happened?
6.5.1 A communal vision
6.5.2 The Holy Spirit filled all the followers of Jesus
6.5.3 They 'began to speak in other tongues' — Acts 2:4
6.5.4 In summary, and beyond
6.6 The significance of Pentecost
6.6.1 The birth of the Church
6.6.2 The coming of the Spirit is an eschatological event
6.7 The implications of the coming of the Spirit
6.7.1 A new era and relationship with God is inaugurated
6.7.2 The disciples are transformed
6.7.3 The followers of Jesus receive power
6.7.4 The Spirit was given for mission
6.8 Conclusion
7. The Spirit, tongues and baptism
7.1 Pentecost: the mark of Spirit baptism — Acts 1:5
7.2 Pentecost: Spirit baptism and tongues — Acts 2:4
7.3 Pentecost: a programmatic statement? — Acts 2:38, 41
7.4 Samaritans: baptism and belief — Acts 8:12, 14-16
7.5 The Ethiopian: water baptism as response — Acts 8:36, 38
7.6 Paul: Spirit-filled, then baptized — Acts 9:17-18
7.7 Cornelius: belief, the Spirit, then water baptism —Acts 10:44-48
7.8 Lydia: faith, then baptism as communal acceptance —Acts 16:14-15
7.9 The Philippian gaoler: belief, then water baptism —Acts 16:30-33
7.10 Crispus: belief, then water baptism — Acts 18:8
7.11 The Ephesians: John's baptism, belief, water baptism, then the Spirit — Acts 19:1-7
7.12 Paul: water baptism, forgiveness and faith —Acts 22:13-14, 16
7.13 Discussion and conclusions
7.13.1 Baptism in the Spirit
7.13.2 Aspects of initiation
7.13.3 Tongues as initial evidence?
7.13.4 The Spirit and water baptism
7.13.5 The necessity of water baptism
7.13.6 Infant baptism? 7.14 So far . . .
8. Problems in the early Church
8.1 Persecution
8.1.1 Persecution and suffering are part of God's order for his messengers
8.1.2 The encouragement and example of Jesus
8.1.3 Suffering and success
8.1.4 Prayer
8.1.5 God is tangibly present
8.1.6 The Church is to be characterized by joy
8.2 The imperative of community
8.3 The Church: Jews or Gentiles or both?
8.4 Rich and poor, high and low
8.4.1 The foolishness of wealth
8.4.2 The blessing of poverty
8.4.3 The cost of wealth
8.4.4 Hospitality
8.5 The damage of dishonesty and selfishness
8.6 A further breach of community: Hebrews and Hellenists
8.7 Women
8.8 Conclusion
9. Worship
9.1 The temple
9.2 Maintaining Jewish ways of worship — Acts 1:12-14
9.3 Prayer and community meetings — Acts 1:15-26
9.4 Pentecost — Acts 2:1-4
9.5 A summary of activity — Acts 2:42
9.6 A summary — Acts 2:43-47
9.7 A prayer meeting — Acts 4:23-31
9.8 Outside Jerusalem 9.9 A leaders' meeting? — Acts 13:1-3
9.10 Sunday worship? — Acts 20:7-13
9.11 Conclusion
10. Scripture and knowing God
10.1 Luke and Scripture
10.2 Old Testament quotations
10.2.1 Acts 1:16-20
10.2.2 Acts 2:17-35
10.2.3 Acts 3:13-25
10.2.4 Acts 4:11
10.2.5 Acts 4:24-26
10.2.6 Acts 7:2-53
10.2.7 Acts 8:32-33
10.2.8 Acts 13:16-52
10.2.9 Acts 15:13-21
10.2.10 Acts 23:5
10.2.11 Acts 28:26-27
10.3 Discussion and conclusions
11 Experience and knowing God
11.1 Jesus and guidance
11.2 Ongoing experience of the numinous
11.2.1 Inspire eloquence
11.2.2 Dreams and visions
11.2.3 Prophecy
11.2.4 The guidance of prophecy
11.2.5 Testing prophecy
11.3 The divine and the human
11.4 Conclusions
12. Early catholic, Protestant or charismatic?
12.1 Luke's models of ministry
12.1.1 Jesus and his followers
12.1.2 Ministry at Jerusalem 12.1.3 Ministry at Antioch
12.1.4 The Ephesian ministry
12.2 Qualifications and tasks for key figures
12.3 Conclusions
13. Mission: evangelism or social action or both?
13.1 Eschatology and mission
13.2 Failure in mission
13.3 Evangelism or social action or both?
13.3.1 A mission of freedom from sin and the demonic Luke 4:16-30
13.3.2 The Magnificat — Luke 1:46b-56
13.3.3 The Beatitudes — Luke 6:20-26
13.3.4 The ethical material
13.3.5 The nature of Jesus' ministry
13.3.6 Mission and social action in Acts
13.4 So far . . .
13.5 The mission
13.5.1 Mission as witness
13.5.2 Message
13.5.3 God's tangible presence
13.5.4 The character of the community
13.6 Conclusions
14. Listening to Luke
14.1 Christo-centric not pneuma-centric
14.2 The purpose of the Church
14.3 People of the Spirit
14.4 Joining the people of God
14.5 Facing problems and persecution
14.6 Luke on worship
14.7 Scripture and experience
14.8 Church structures and leadership
14.9 Mission
14.10 Luke's voice