Something strange happened after the death of Jesus Christ. A small group of followers gathered in a room, wondering “what comes next”. Fifty days later, they turned the world upside down. That is the story of Acts, the fifth book of the New Testament.

That’s not poetic language. That’s a direct quote from Acts 17:6. When the early Christians arrived in local cities throughout the ancient world, they disrupted everything, and everyone could feel it.

That’s what the book of Acts is all about. Not just the spread of a new religion, but the arrival of a new kind of community that operated by a completely different set of rules.

• The last were being treated as first.
• The outsider kept getting let in.
• The powerful were being humbled and the humble were being lifted up.
• A kingdom was taking root, and it didn’t look anything like the kingdoms around it.

In this series, we’re going to walk through Acts together and pay close attention to the moments of disruption and explore the places where the early church collided with the culture around it. We’ll see how the gospel unsettled comfortable people, crossed boundaries that weren’t supposed to be crossed, and built a community that the world genuinely didn’t know what to do with.

If the Kingdom of God is still upside down, then following Jesus should still feel a little disorienting for us and for the world around us.