Dream Church: Lessons for Mission from the Book of Acts - John Dickson
Christian affiliation is declining across the West, leaving many wondering how evangelism can flourish in secular contexts. Yet history reminds us that the earliest Christians grew from a few thousand to over four million within ten generations—without armies, politics, or cultural power. This keynote explores how the Acts 2 portrait of the first church offers vital lessons for the church today—about our approach to theological learning, the nature of Christian community, and our zeal for God and a lost world amidst hardship. With historical insight and contemporary application, this session asks: What can the ancient church teach the future church about evangelism?
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John Dickson’s story is eclectic. Starting out as a professional singer-songwriter, he now works as an author, speaker, historian, and media presenter. He was the Founding Director of the Centre for Public Christianity (2007-17). He has published over 20 books, two of which became television documentaries, with a third, For the Love of God: How the Church is Better and Worse Than You Ever Imagined, released in Australian cinemas in June 2018. John has held a variety of teaching and research positions before moving to Wheaton College, including in the Ancient History Department at Macquarie University (2002-2015), the Hebrew, Jewish, and Biblical Studies Department at Sydney University (2011-2021), Ridley College Melbourne (2019-2022), and the Faculty of Classics at the University of Oxford (2015-2023). A busy public speaker, he lives in Wheaton, Illinois, with his wife Elizabeth and the youngest of their three children.
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