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Stott & Keller: This short section is the classic text describing the very earliest church and how it lived its live corporately. It is extremely concise but also extremely complete. John Stott writes: “It is incorrect to call the Day of Pentecost ‘the birthday of the church’. For the church as the people of God goes back at least 4,000 years to Abraham. What happened at Pentecost was that…God’s people became the Spirit-filled body of Christ.” Thus this picture of the church is also a picture of what the church becomes when the power of the Spirit is in evidence. During times of spiritual revival and renewal, the church can return to some degree to this form. People studying this text seriously can discover an almost endless stream of important insights as to how Christians should live together in community.
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