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"There's nothing today's church needs so much as to rediscover the doctrine, spirit, and commitments of the early Christian community," writes James Montgomery Boice. The power the early church exhibited for changes and growth is overwhelming. Although it faced enormous obstacles--it was completely new, it taught truths that seemed unbelievable, and it suffered intense hatred and persecution-the...

That is why, when the second symbol for the Holy Spirit is introduced, as it is in verse 3, it is as tongues of fire, and not fire alone. This is not just a way of saying that these were little flames. Tongues are that by which we speak. And when we speak, what do we do? We breathe out. That is how we make our larynxes work. It is how we produce sounds. So the main point is reinforced again: When the Holy Spirit, the breath of God, enters a person to enable him or her to give
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