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Urban Legends of Church History: 40 Common Misconceptions is unavailable, but you can change that!

Urban Legends of Church History surveys forty of the most commonly misunderstood events of church history from the period of the early church through the modern age. While these “urban legends” sometimes arise out of falsehood or fabrication, they are often the product of an exaggerated recounting of actual historical events. With a pastoral tone and helpful explanations, authors John Adair and...

Now, we do know that on the Sabbath the apostles would go to the Jewish synagogues to preach about Christ to the Jews and God-fearing Gentiles (Acts 13:14; 13:42; 13:44; 16:33). But this evangelism was not the same as gathering together for the apostles’ teaching, the breaking of bread, and prayer—characteristics of early Christian worship (Acts 2:42). It also seems likely that the very first Jewish believers continued to observe many aspects of the law, including the Saturday Sabbath rest,11 but
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