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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...

The theological center of Acts is the missionary nature of Christian faith under Jesus’ commissioning leadership and the Holy Spirit’s empowering presence. Acts reveals God as a missionary God, intent on redeeming all of creation. In order to accomplish this, Jesus came, died, and rose again to inaugurate the kingdom of God on earth. The apostles, through the leading of the Holy Spirit, are sent from Jerusalem to the ends of the known world with the gospel—the announcement that
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