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Divine Intention: How God's Work in the Early Church Empowers Us Today is unavailable, but you can change that!

When a group of people practice something for two thousand years, the expectation is that they'd eventually get whatever it was they were committed to doing right. But the fact is that we as individuals and as a corporate community are still struggling with many of the issues that plagued the early church. Larry Shallenberger takes a fresh look at the book of Acts to help you gain a deeper...

Then church politics pushed you away. You experienced a lack of consistency between the values celebrated on Sunday morning and the way the church truly operated during the Tuesday night board meeting. Love and servanthood are triumphed from the pulpit on Sunday, but the “greatest of these” is a good old-fashioned power play any other day of the week. Now Christian character seems little more than a veneer of politeness used to lubricate the social exchanges that occur before and after worship services.
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