Acts is not written, then, to describe examples of a ‘normal process’ of the spiritual development of individual believers. It is written to describe the one-off inauguration of a quite new reality. Pentecost, along with Good Friday, Easter and Ascension, constitutes the great turning point in the history of Israel and the world. Tom Wright

The early church is constituted as the single global family, the genuine article of which modern secular multiculturalism is a kind of parody. Tom Wright