Acts
The book of Acts tells the history of the early church as the apostles carry the gospel of Jesus from Jerusalem to the wider Roman world.
Here for the Fellowship · Acts 2:46
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Here for the Fellowship · Acts 2:46
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Here for the Fellowship · Acts 2:46
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About the book of Acts
The Acts of the Apostles is the fifth book of the New Testament and a history of the early church. Its author is Luke, the physician and traveling companion of the apostle Paul, who wrote it as the second volume of his Gospel. Like the Gospel, it is addressed to a man named Theophilus (Acts 1:1). Acts begins where the Gospel of Luke ends, with the risen Jesus ascending to heaven, and it closes with Paul under guard in Rome while he keeps preaching (Acts 28).
Main themes
The book follows the gospel as it spreads from Jerusalem to Judea and Samaria and on to the wider Roman world, as Jesus said it would in Acts 1:8. It opens with the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost in Acts 2, when Peter preaches and about three thousand people are baptized in a single day. From there we meet Stephen, Philip, Saul on the Damascus road, Cornelius the Roman officer, and Paul on his journeys.
Three themes stand out. The Holy Spirit empowers ordinary men and women to speak with courage. The church grows across cultures, and Acts 10 and Acts 15 show Jewish and Gentile believers learning to receive one another. And the believers live as a community, praying, teaching, sharing meals and caring for the needy. Prayer is everywhere in the book: they pray when they choose leaders, when they face threats and when they send out missionaries. Acts is less a story about heroes than about a faithful God and the people who showed up.
Verses from Acts on our apparel
Acts 2:46 belongs to the description of the new church at the end of chapter 2: “And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,” Luke is describing the first Jewish Christians, who met in the temple courts each day and opened their homes to share the Lord’s Supper and ordinary meals. In the King James Version “meat” simply means food, and “singleness of heart” means joy and devotion with nothing held back. A table is where much of Acts happens, from Jerusalem kitchens to a jailer’s house in Philippi.
That scene is the heart of our Here for the Fellowship design, which comes as a T-shirt, a hoodie and a crewneck. It is meant for anyone who loves a full church kitchen, a Sunday lunch that runs long or a potluck table with a seat saved for a newcomer.
Frequently asked
Who wrote Acts? Luke wrote it as the sequel to his Gospel. Some passages in Acts switch to “we,” which suggests Luke was traveling with Paul at those points.
What does meat mean in the KJV of Acts 2:46? In older English it means food in general, not only animal flesh. Compare Genesis 1:29.