history, it would be first-century Palestine. That is when God was doing his most exciting work. We need to go back and reread Acts to hear the amazing truth: Jesus is alive and living in his disciples (church). We are that same church and God wants to work through us just as he did then. We cannot reproduce the power of the early church by copying outward forms any more than I can play basketball like Lebron James by wearing Nike shoes and a Cavaliers jersey. We cannot hold up a skeleton of the