Acts 29: the story is still being written
Rev. Aniekan "Mbomboyo" Okokon ·
Luke ends the book of Acts without ending the story. Paul is under house arrest in Rome, preaching to whoever will come, and then the account simply stops. There is no closing scene, no summary, no farewell. For a writer as careful as Luke, that is not an accident.
The book stops because the work did not. What the apostles began is the same work handed to an ordinary congregation meeting in a town hall in Eket — and chapter 29 is the one being written now, by people whose names will never appear in anyone’s Bible.
What the first church actually did
Strip Acts back to its habits and the pattern is unglamorous. They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching. They shared what they had. They broke bread in one another’s homes. They prayed. Everything else in the book — the growth, the courage under pressure, the reach across a continent — grows out of those four ordinary practices.
- Teaching that people submitted to, not just admired
- Fellowship close enough to notice what a neighbour lacked
- Meals in homes, where most of the real discipleship happened
- Prayer that expected God to act, and kept going when He took His time
Where that leaves us
It is tempting to read Acts as a highlight reel and conclude that our own church life is too small to matter. But the church in Antioch did not know it was Antioch. It was a group of believers being faithful in a specific place, and the significance came later.
Our goal is not just to gather crowds, but to build disciples who can take the culture of the Kingdom into every sphere of human endeavour.
So the question the series keeps putting to us is not whether we admire the early church. It is whether we are doing what they did — in our homes, in our workplaces, in Eket. If you would like to be part of it, come and sit with us on a Sunday. There is no dress code and nobody will single you out.