… celebrate what you can give and celebrate the generous impulse of the church that stretches back in time to the very foundation of the word ‘Christian’.
When is a time you discovered a pivotal truth that flipped your way of viewing something on it’s head, and turned you from a naysayer or a persecutor, to a follower?
Now the apostles and the believers who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles had also accepted the word of God. So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcised believers criticized him, saying, ‘Why did you go to uncircumcised men and eat with them?’ Then Peter began to explain it to them, step by step, saying, ‘I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision. There was something like a large sheet […]
Learning from and knowing about the early church is not the same as imitating the early church. Krista Dalton thinks about our relationship with Scripture, particularly the communities behind them.
Were they recording an ideal past or imaging an ideal
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