Counting With Luke

Even though Luke was probably a Gentile, which means that he was not a Jew, God gave him the honor of writing one fourth of the New Testament. He is the author of both the Gospel According to Luke, and The Acts of the Apostles, Luke and Acts for short.Luke was not a priest, or an apostle. He was a doctor, and a good friend of the apostles. He traveled with the Apostle Paul and wrote all about it in the Book of Acts. He, like Matthew, got much of his source material from the Gospel of Mark, but added details that he would have had to get from another source.The Book of Luke seems to be directed at other Gentile Christians in the same way that Matthew seems to be directed at Jewish Christians. Luke was beloved by his friends, who included Paul, and he was called by God to give the history of the early Church through his two volumes, Luke and Acts, which were both written as long letters to someone named Theophilus, which means, lover of God. This book, Counting with Luke, searches out the