In the first volume of this new series, one of the 20th century's greatest preachers offers a verse-by-verse exposition of Acts 1-3 and compares current Christianity with that which was lived in the early church. This book will encourage, challenge, and strengthen you in your faith.

Blending his classic, personal approach with his astute analysis of man's condition, he presents a message that persuasively speaks to the convictions of every reader.

In this volume, the third in the present series intended to bring together much of Dr. Lloyd-Jones evangelistic preaching on Acts, the main incidents in Acts 5:17-6:8 are reviewed and their lessons applied to the mind, heart and conscience of the reader.

Why should readers in the twenty-first century concern themselves with preaching from the first century? Are there not many more pressing topics to concern them than a long address given by a Jewish Christian to the leaders of his nation in Jerusalem? Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones was convinced that time spent in the early chapters of Acts, ‘to discover how the church started and what her message was at the beginning’, was well spent. He shows that we cannot understand the gospel, or even our own history, without understanding the events narrated in Acts 7. There would be no gospel if ‘the God of glory’ had not ‘appeared to Abraham’.

Today's church has lost its power because it is so much like the world. The world has entered the church as Christians think they can win people by becoming like them. Yet the world remains unchanged and considers the church an utter irrelevance! But the thing that struck Martyn Lloyd-Jones about Acts 7 was the amazing contrast between Stephen and those who opposed him. Here is a Christian who is so different from the world - so Christlike, so uncompromising, so faithful to the gospel (even unto death), yet so full of power and of the Holy Spirit - that the impact of his witness is still being felt 2,000 years later!

In this concluding volume of Authentic Christianity, Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones shows the significance of the events recorded in Acts 8:1-35 for readers today. These sermons, preached between Oct. 1967 and Feb. 1968, are full of penetrating insights on such topics as man's need for the gospel, the work of the Spirit, the supernatural character of true Christianity, repentance and faith, the danger of spurious belief, and the very heart and centre of the gospel in the sufferings and death of Christ, as explained by Philip to the man of Ethiopia.