Psalia.History & narrative / About this book
The risen Jesus sends witnesses, and the Spirit forms a community whose reach keeps widening. Jerusalem, new peoples and the journeys of Paul shape the movement of the story. Opposition and disagreement accompany the growth rather than disappearing from it.
EDITORIAL REFLECTION · NOT SCRIPTURE
Follow the story across more than one scene. Keep track of people, places, decisions, and consequences, especially when the account changes its focus. What a person does in a narrative is not automatically what the reader is being told to do.
Notice how the narrator presents success, failure, memory, and responsibility. A brief note about what has changed can help you pick up the thread when you return to the next chapter.
Use the outline to see the larger movement before settling into a chapter. Each section opens at its first chapter in the reader.
1The first book I wrote, Theophilus, concerned all that Jesus began both to do and to teach,
2until the day in which he was received up, after he had given commandment through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen.
3To these he also showed himself alive after he suffered, by many proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days and speaking about God’s Kingdom.
4Being assembled together with them, he commanded them, “Don’t depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which you heard from me.
5For John indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”
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Which encounter asks the community to reconsider whom it is ready to welcome?
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