Our new study , the book of Acts is important because it gives us a journal of the earliest attempt to live out the teachings of Jesus--the prototype. This group understood Christ's teachings the best because they actually knew him and had heard him teach in person.   I am certain this has happened in Christianity.  On the one hand we have the teachings and lifestyle of Jesus recorded in the gospels.  On the other hand we have a thing called Christianity which is the combination of the religion about Jesus plus culture. Play Episode