Missional Acts

“In this groundbreaking study, McGinnis critically evaluates the means Acts uses to champion a world-wide proselytizing mission. . . . Rooted in Luke’s idiosyncratic trinitarian theology, mission boils down to this: ‘Christians’ in the Roman world should open house churches to those of differing customs, laws, and ethnicities, and leaders should support planting new house churches.”


—Yancy Smith, Senior Director of Bible Translation, Bible League International





“It took a church planter/scholar to give us this brilliant overview, opening up the Book of Acts in line with Luke’s unashamedly strategic intentions. Missional Acts is packed with rich biblical insight for the church. . . . To read this book is to see Acts with new eyes. It is, in essence, to draw alongside the earliest Christians and be ignited by the same flame.”


—Mark Powley, Principal, St Hild College





“In this exhilarating study of Acts, the missional nature of the church is set forth with great vigor and academic skill. Like the book of Acts itself, we are confronted with the irresistible advance of the word, the unending empowerment of the Spirit, and the universal scope of salvation.”


—Steve Moyise, Professor emeritus of New Testament, University of Chichester





“In Missional Acts, McGinnis offers a challenging reading of the book of Acts as a persuasive equipping narrative for mission. This book invites followers of Christ to discover (or rediscover) the missional stimuli, structures, strategies, and sufferings of the earliest churches—and to consider how to apply them in relevant and innovative ways in our own very different world.”


—Loveday Alexander, Professor emerita of Biblical Studies, University of Sheffield