I have enjoyed teaching the Gospel of Luke.  He was my kind of writer-- always trying to get everything down--in order.

He was so thorough that he went around to every person and place that he could--to find out the story from each place and person where it occurred.

He wrote over twenty five incidents and stories that the other three gospel writers did not include.  Mark, on the other hand, only included two things that none of the others did.

Luke was systematic in his approach.  He started his gospel by saying that he wanted to get it all down from the mouths of the people who knew Jesus personally.  He wanted first hand accounts.

It is one of the few books in the Bible that you can read and get the idea that you were an observer.  It is personal.  Luke, a physician,  made sure that the people who read what he had written could be sure that they were reading a true account of what happened.  A true man of medicine, Luke wanted to see people spiritually healed.  We owe Luke a debt of gratitude.