Challenges that Acts Presents to us Today:

1.  Acts demonstrates the priority of sharing our faith with others. These early evangelists sought to show that Christianity could answer the questions people were asking, and the records of the speeches indicate that their message was strongly content-oriented––i.e., they had something valuable and meaningful to say when the opportunity arose.

2. Second, Acts presents a vibrant community that is passionate about the mission of the Church irrespective of their immediate circumstance.

3. And more broadly, to a Western society in which individualism reigns the earliest Christian community presents a people who strove to hold all things in common;

   To a contemporary church that has adopted a style of community life aligned with Western individualism, Acts presents a group of Christians so committed to Christ and the cause of the Gospel that they were willing to sacrifice their desires for the good of others.

   To a Western society where pluralism defines truth as something subjective and personal, Acts presents a church that based its life on certain objective facts about God and Christ Jesus.

   And in an age when many avenues are available to avoid suffering, in consequence of which many Christians have omitted suffering and trials from their understanding of the Christian life, Acts presents a church that took on suffering for the Gospel of Christ and considered it a basic ingredient of discipleship.