From Jerusalem to Rome: How a Local Church Can Impact the Whole World

The Book of Acts is a great story of the early church Jesus started and left in the tiny nation of Israel. He left his unlikely group of disciples with the enormous task of spreading what they knew about Jesus and their experience with him to the entire world. They were successful and not only reached their world, but generations into the future. Approximately 2000 years after he returned to heaven, the church exists in places like South America, Asia and the remotest islands of the earth. In John 17:20, Jesus prayed, "I am praying not only for these disciples, but also for all who will ever believe in me through their message." It worked! How did they do it? In order to understand how this message reached so far, you have to see the book of Acts not just as a history of the early church, but also as a strategy and a pattern.