A unique series designed to bring detailed scholarship of the Scriptures and contemporary application together in one volume, explaining not only what the Bible means, but also how it speaks to us today.

Acts, which is part of the NIV Application Commentary Series, helps readers learn how the message of Acts can have the same powerful impact today than it did when Luke first wrote it.

The very name Book of Acts implies that Christianity is anything but passive. Making a quick and continuous connection between faith and action, the first-century church grew from a handful of Jewish believers into a movement that sweeping far beyond the confines of Judea, set the entire Roman Empire ablaze with faith.

Faith and action: that inseparable link is a golden thread running through acts, and it should weave through our own lives as well. While the world today is very differenct from what it was 2,000 years ago, one thing hasn't changed: God's heart for lost people. As long as he continues to act on their behalf, he will call us to play an integral part in his deeds. Acts lifts us up out of the armchair and spurs us to kingdom action, trusting that God will be with us as surely as he was with Peter, Paul, John, and the infant church.

Exploring the links between the Bible and our own times. Ajith Fernando shares perspectives on the Book of Acts that reveal its enduring relevance for our twenty-first-century lives.