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Sex and money scandals. An exploding divorce rate. Drug-addicted youths. And an ever-growing wordliness. Today's evangelical church is fighting battles on all fronts. And we seem to be losing these battles to the relentlessly encroaching world. Perhaps the answers to our problems are not in... read more
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“Whoever heard of repenting from what is good in order to follow what is evil?”
Polycarp -
“You threaten me with a mere fire that burns for an hour and then goes out. Haven't you heard of the fire of the coming judgment and of the eternal punishment reserved for the ungodly? Why do you keep delaying? Do whatever you want with me.”
Polycarp -
“To the early Christian, trusting God meant more than a teary-eyed testimony about 'the time I came to trust the Lord.' It meant believing that even if obedience to God entailed great suffering, God was trustworthy to bring a person through it.”
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“A person who does not do what God has commanded shows he really does not believe God.”
Clement -
“To the early Christians, to claim to trust God while refusing to obey Him was a contradiction. (1 John 2:4)”
David Bercot
First Sentence edit
As the chariot rumbled through the stone-paved streets of Smyrna, the prisoner could already hear the roar of the frenzied crowd in the arena.
Table of Contents edit
1. The Prisoner
2. Who Were the Early Christians?
3. Citizens of Another Kingdom
4. Is Right and Wrong Simply A Matter of Culture?
5. Why They Succeeded Where We Often Fail
6. What They Believed About Salvation
7. What They Believed About Predestination and Freewill
8. What Baptism Meant to the Early Christians
9. Prosperity: A Blessing or a Snare?
10. Is Old Testament Morality Still Good Enough?
11. Who Better Understands the Apostles?
12. Were the Teachings of the Apostles Deliberately Altered?
13. How Early Christianity was Corrupted
14. The Remaining Barriers Crumble
15. The Most Influential Christian of All Time
16. Was the Reformation a Return to Early Christianity?
17. The Quest to Restore Early Christianity
18. The Anabaptist Fire
19. So What Does All This Mean For Us?
Authors & Contributors edit
- David W. Bercot (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 270.1
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