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The church has taken many forms over the centuries. It has met in shacks, and stadiums, in huge buildings and in underground movements. We even met online during the COVID pandemic and some people find this to be their preferred method now. No matter what the church has looked like or where they’ve gathered, the church has had many commonalities over the past two thousand years. From first century Jerusalem to twenty-first century America (or wherever you reside), some things have remained the same.
Through wars, exiles, famines, persecution, plagues, and pandemics, God has been on one continuous mission: to pursue humans with unrelenting love. The book of Acts tells us just one story of God on this mission in and through his people. It’s about the formation of the first church and how God worked through them to change the world.
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