The Emergence of the Church: Context, Growth, Leadership & Worship (Biblia.com)

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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...

beliefs and symbols into their various systems of thought.”78 Amid all the diverse opinions on the origin, definition and influence of Gnosticism on the early church, several things are clear: (1) it was a religious and philosophical movement; (2) it was not monolithic;79 (3) it emerged during the first and second centuries A.D. and became more systematized in subsequent centuries; and (4) a gnōsis (knowledge) of some type was a threat to many churches mentioned in the New Testament.80 This heresy

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