How the Gospel Adds New Dimensions to Life
I like the way N.T. Wright describes the new landscape defined by Pentecost and the explosive growth of the early church, as related in Acts 2. Jesus wants the same thing to happen in cities today:
Imagine a world without this astonishing teaching! Imagine a society where there was no ‘common life’ built around a shared belief in Jesus! Imagine a world without ‘the bread-breaking,’ or a world without prayer! Life would be bleak indeed — as it often is for many people, not least those who embrace a relentlessly secularist lifestyle, shutting the door on any of these possibilities. And if you lived in such a world, and then suddenly found yourself swept up in this pattern of teaching, fellowship, bread-breaking and prayer, you would know that new dimensions had opened up before you, and new vistas of how the world might be had suddenly become visible. - Acts for Everyone Part One, page 45
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