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The early church did not descend from heaven on a golden string. Nor did it spring full-grown from the mind of Jesus or the apostles. The church emerged as the result of God's decisive action within a particular people, Israel, their story and their historical context. The focal point of this action was Jesus--his ministry, death and resurrection. But there were challenges, setbacks and...

components we have very little data: there are no extant sermons, hymn books, orders of worship, liturgies or developed catechisms within the New Testament to make the task easier. The following discussion takes a number of methodological principles into consideration. First, I work from the premise that there was no archetypal form or original blueprint of worship prescribed for the early church in Jerusalem or subsequent churches. Believers in Jerusalem and in other
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