Luke, the physician who accompanied the apostle Paul in his journeys, was not only a doctor of his day but also a writer. He wrote the book of St. Luke and the Acts of the Apostles. Had Luke not taken this work seriously, we would have little knowledge of the apostles and their works, their passions, their personalities. God laid his hand on Luke to write down these accounts and we are blessed beyond measure by the words we read in Luke’s gospel and the miraculous accounts in Acts.
From Luke’s writings, we read vivid detail about the birth of Christ and we visualize the amazing events taking place in the New Testament church. We see the word picture, not the writer. We enter into the event as the reader, but we don’t notice the writer. We experience the awe of the miracles, but we never see the face of the man who wrote about them. Luke was truly a writer to emulate.
Ruth Carmichael Ellinger
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