Today I read the chapter in the morning and stopped what I was beginning to write, planning to come back to it. My general comments on the chapter seemed again to be rather cynical and snarky - and I feel like I've been doing a lot of that lately. Thought I'd better spend some time trying to find deeper truth in today's scritpure or trying to figure out why I'm generally *bleep*y about what I've been reading lately.
The partial answer I've discovered is that I'm really having a hard time with Acts because it's about the development of the church as an institution. And as difficult as I find it to confront God's will for my life, the role that the institutional church plays in my life is much more complex and sometimes harder to deal with. Luke demanded a lot of me. Acts seems to be asking me to rejoice in the establishment of an institution to govern and control faith. As I read Acts, the Spirit is acting...the church is controlling. And I don't think that's what the author intended to write at all. So these must be my issues.
I still love the concrete church made up of messy people like me. I'm finding it harder to like Peter and the mythical early church every day.
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