Entries Tagged as ‘Acts’

January 30, 2008

“And then the Spirit came” by Michael Green

“Three crucial decades in world history. That is all it took. In the years between AD 33 and 64 a new movement was born. In those thirty years it got sufficient growth and credibility to become the largest religion the world has ever seen and to change the lives of hundreds of millions of people. [...]

January 28, 2008

“Is the church scriptural?” by Christopher J. H. Wright

Commenting on Acts 15, Wright notes the following: 
“It is ironic how far we have moved from this early difficulty. For many contemporary Christians the problem lies with the Old Testament. For these early Christians the Old Testament was the given Word of God; the problem lay with the church. Our question so often is, Is [...]