Bethel Christian Center

This is the last picture that we have of the apostle Paul in the book of Acts. The book of Acts is the one book in the New Testament Scriptures that tells us about the early church; it shows us what the early church was like; it gives us a pattern of churches in all time to come. Acts begins with Jerusalem, which, of course, was the capital city of the Jewish people, and concludes by bringing us to Rome. Rome was the capital of the non-Jewish world; so we see here the center of gravity move from Jerusalem to Rome. The purpose is to show that the Gentiles are brought into the Kingdom of God.