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Together for the World: The Book of Acts is unavailable, but you can change that!

First-century Christians asked many of the same questions we ask today: Where does the church of Jesus Christ stand in the world? Where does the church fit in such a religiously diverse society? How should Christians respond to marginalization, ridicule, and insult? In Together with the World, Michael Wagenman reminds us that the book of Acts is about more than just the beginning of church...

century was pre-Christian, while our century is post-Christian. Also, whereas Christianity has come to fit quite comfortably within many 21st-century cultures, it was the object of intense and sustained persecution in the 1st century. We see in Luke’s description of Paul that suffering was the normal state of affairs for Christians in the early church. Reflecting on the dating of Acts helps us to remember the chronological and cultural differences between the context of the book’s events and ours.
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