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The purpose of this book is to examine the pattern of community life that existed in the early church. It suggests how the contemporary church can model this pattern in today’s society. The church must reevaluate how the world sees and responds to her, uniting as one body under the power and anointing of the Holy Spirit, in order to once again be effective witnesses in our communities. In order...

considerable Jewish population within its borders, seem to be listed in linguistic categories, which alludes to emphasizing that the gospel transcends linguistic barriers.33 The three prevalent cultures at this time were Judaism, Hellenism, and Roman imperialism. Judaism provided the roots of Christianity; Hellenism, the intellectual soil in which it grew; and imperialism, the protection that opened the field of its growth. Paradoxically, these three cultures became Christianity’s bitterest enemies,
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