SermonS

Works of Power and the Progress of the Gospel

August 17, 2025

Speaker:

Andy Saperstein

Series

Being the Church: Lessons from the Book of Acts

Among the most compelling stories in the Bible are several contained in the Book of Acts, written by the humble and gentle physician, Luke. In Acts, Luke tells the story of the birth and expansion of the church in the early decades following the Lord’s death, resurrection, and ascension. He tells the story of the coming and work of the Holy Spirit, the ministry of the Apostles Peter and Paul, and of other early saints. He tells the story of early opposition to the faith, of the first martyrs, and of the courage of early Christians in the face of resistance and even death. At the beginning of the book, the Christian community is limited to Jewish believers mostly in and around Jerusalem; by the end of the book, the church is growing and expanding among Jewish and Gentile communities throughout the Mediterranean world and beyond. Come out for this 10 week series and join us in living out in our own day and time what it is to be the church together.

Throughout the Book of Acts we find accounts of how God speaks and acts in miraculous ways, even as the Apostles and the early church act with wisdom and boldness to bear witness to the death and resurrection of Jesus. The power and presence of the Holy Spirit are normative in the pages of Acts, ever intertwined with considered action, bold preaching, and the willingness to suffer to bring the witness of the Gospel from the villages of Galilee to the imperial capital at Rome.

Come out this week and bring a friend to hear a talk entitled “Works of Power and the Progress of the Gospel” and consider how the witness of Acts bears on our life and witness today in New Haven and beyond.

Speaker

Andy Saperstein

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