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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...

the ongoing story of the spread of the gospel, as the message about Jesus was taught from house to house, from city to city, and from nation to nation, to the ends of the earth (Acts 1:8). In light of the central importance of teaching in Luke–Acts, it can hardly be overstated that the first commitment of the new believers was to the teaching of the apostles (Acts 2:42). This was no accident. Luke wants to make clear that the apostles’ teaching, preserved in their writings, should undergird the beliefs,
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