Acts: Turning the World Upside Down | Living the Sequel

Movies and TV are saturated with sequels, reboots, and spinoffs. We love to see how stories progress into new times and settings, how characters grow, and how they respond to the world as it changes along with us. One of the cool things about the Bible is that it has sequels too. Acts is the sequel to the gospels—the four books about the life and ministry of Jesus—written to show us how we, even today, 2000 years later, live in the continuation of the story that started with Jesus. And it’s the story of how the sequel to Jesus turned the world upside down. In this series, we’re going to explore Acts and talk about how we fit into this continuing story. In this opening message, Pastor Joel unpacks how the big themes of Acts—taking the good news to the ends of the earth by the power of the Holy Spirit through ordinary people like us—are foreshadowed right away in its opening moments.