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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...

room. We get to be weak and broken, and he gets to burn through us without destroying us. This is hard stuff for someone who grew up defining his self-concept by excelling at religion. I once dominated a popular game in evangelical junior high subculture known as “Bible Quizzing.” Bible quizzing worked like a game show. Every year youth group teams would immerse themselves in a prescribed book of the Bible, preparing for the quiz. Once a month rows of adolescents sat in metal folding chairs with electronic