Riots. Intolerance. Accusations. Scandal. Beatings. Plots. Arrests. Executions. Murder. And out of all that, the church was born.

John MacArthur takes the reader through the story of the earliest Christian movement to show how, in the middle of persecution and opposition, the first believers relied on God's Spirit for direction and divine authority to preach the gospel to the nations. Acts is a carefully recorded history of the explosive spread of that gospel, and this study works through it passage by passage with questions and space for notes.