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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 best way to navigate this issue is to acknowledge two realities. First, we should remember that God is God. The laws of creation belong to Him. He can and does suspend them any time He is pleased to perform miracles that will bring glory to His name and gospel. Second, the focus of the miraculous in Acts is overwhelmingly on certifying God’s apostles and their gospel as the power of God that saves (Rom 1:16). If any church’s focus is on the apostles’ writings and message, then they are honoring
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