early church the marks of a healthy church in every age of history? Should we evangelize by teams as they did or by individuals as we tend to do? The list can go on. We easily understand the descriptive aspect of history. Yet it seems too confining to think that history sections of Scripture have no prescriptive elements, since all Scripture is inspired by God for our profit (2 Tim 3:15–16). Intuitively Christians look for lessons, abiding truths, and theologies from history as well as the other