This book is part Luke-Acts commentary and critique; part reception history; and part testimony. Or, as pentecostal scholars insist, all of the above at once. Walk with my friend Marty through the forest of his scholarship, which is in many ways his autobiography. Savor the honesty of his comments on the trail, which shine with a depth of appreciation and critique that only seasoned insiders can offer. Rest with him at the site where he witnesses to Luke’s ongoing power “both to crush and to save my faith,” and ponder whether that tension is yours as well. - Holly Beers Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Westmont College

Martin W. Mittelstadt (Ph.D., Marquette Universiy) is Professor of New Testament at Evangel University in Springfield, Missouri. On Luke-Acts, he previously published The Spirit and Suffering in Luke-Acts: Implications for a Pentecostal Pneumatology (T & T Clark, 2004) and Reading Luke-Acts in the Pentecostal Tradition (CPT Press, 2010). In addition to various professional articles and edited volumes, he co-edited Mennocostals: Pentecostal and Mennonite Stories of Convergence (Pickwick Press, 2020) with Brian K. Pipkin, and Canadian Pentecostal Reader: The First Generation of Pentecostal Voices in Canada (CPT Press, 2021) with Caleb Courtney. He is a past-president of the Society for Pentecostal Studies (2021).