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The Emergence of the Church: Context, Growth, Leadership & Worship is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

the entire Pentecost event, including Peter’s sermon, covered the better part of an entire day and involved considerably more dialogue than Luke recorded. Luke indicates this in Acts 2:40, where Peter “testified with many other arguments” (diemartyrato) as he exhorted the Israelites to be saved. “Testified,” writes Everett Harrison, “suggests a further witness of a strong and penetrating nature, whereas ‘exhorting’ indicates repeated appeals to come to the point of decision.”48 No doubt this included
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