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Remember when you left seminary or took up your present pastorate, and you were going to set the church aflame with your sound biblical exposition, your sweeping theological insights and your homiletical eloquence? Roger Wagner suggests that maybe it is time to re-examine the preaching of Paul, Peter and Stephen and reconsider what it was in their preaching that not only set the Church aflame but...

they should have already known how the miracle took place; but how could they? They have to think about this. The second question indicates that the majority opinion of the crowd—that Peter and John themselves must be somehow responsible for the miracle—is wrong.2 The source of the miracle cannot be found in either the power or the godliness of Peter or John. Peter directs their attention away from the human instruments toward God, the source of all healing and salvation.3 Peter’s words here remind
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