Acts The Gospel for All People Author:J. W. MacGorman Have you ever wondered why Acts was included in our Bible? Certainly we must thank God for inspiring Acts' writer and for preserving it for us in our Bible. But Acts also serves a practical purpose too. Without Acts, we would have to spend hours piecing evidence together from the Gospels and the epistles to have just a skeleton history of the fi... more »rst-century church. With Acts, we easily can follow the ongoing work of the risen Lord who continued working in the person of the Holy Spirit. Acts also gives us the necessary information to follow the progress of the gospel as it broke through various barriers to complete Jesus' commission.« less