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Exemplary Life articulates Luke’s vision for life together in a local church using key passages from Acts 2:42-47; 4:32-35; and 5:12-16 (known as “summary narratives”) as the starting point of reference. Although Luke is rightly acclaimed as the church’s first historian, he was a powerful writer and theologian as well. He also planted churches with Paul and had definite convictions about what...

Second, Peter stressed the importance of baptism as an expression of true repentance. Too often Baptists and other evangelicals, in a sincere effort to emphasize that Jesus alone—not baptism—saves, end up minimizing the role of baptism as the gospel sign of true repentance. It is correct to say that baptism does not save a person. However, Luke might hear how we articulate this conviction and reply, “But has a person really repented if they will not be baptized? Did they really believe if they will
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