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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...

be the Son of God with power through the resurrection from the dead’ (cf. Rom. 1:4), and by this authority the apostles are sent out to ‘disciple’ (i.e., baptize and teach) all the nations in Jesus’ name. Historically, the scope of the post-resurrection mission has now extended from ‘the lost sheep of Israel’ to ‘all the nations’. To attend them in this mission, Jesus promises his personal presence: he will be with them to the ‘end of the age’ (Matt. 28:20). According to Luke in his narrative of
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