ce points to a selective audience, many scholars theorize that Luke wrote to God-fearing Gentiles, or at least wrote with them in mind, hoping that Theophilus would share this history of the life of Christ with other believers (Liefeld 802).
             In such a light, it would be easy to assume that this gospel account was mainly concerned with evangelism and personal assurance of the rationality of faith for Luke's friend, Theophilus. With a great emphasis on salvation, Luke brings out strong hints at Christology (the identity of Christ), doxology (the theology of glory), one of his favored topics, as seen in his accounts of the ascension, and soteriology (the theology of the cross), one of the themes most overlooked in this gospel (Liefeld 810-811). On top of these, Luke leans heavily on the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, in order to set the tone for his next book, The Acts of the Apostles.
             "The common authorship of Luke and Acts is obvious and is universally recognized. The second volume claims (Acts 1:1) to be by the same author as the first" (Gilmour 3). This claim is easy to accept, as pointed out by Gilmour, as internal evidence supports it. Not only that, but many of the early church
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