What if you found out that nothing we Protestants practice originated in the first century?
What if you found out that almost all of the things we evangelicals practice originated in the last 500 years?
What if you discovered that those practices originated quite by accident? Then how would you feel if you discovered that we distort history when we try to teach that these practices are all New Testament, existed in the first century, and are right out of the Word of God!
Would that discovery affect your life? If not, you need not read this book on the history of the origin of Christian practices. But if you happen to be bored with the present-day practices of Christianity, then you will find this to be one of the most exciting pieces of literature you have ever read.
This book could make a radical out of you. For a few, it might even move you Beyond Radical.
Earl Eugene "Gene" Edwards is an American house church planter, a Christian author, and a former Southern Baptist pastor and evangelist. A graduate of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, he was instrumental in pioneering the house church concept in the United States.
Edwards’ books and tapes laid the ground work for the house church movement that began in the United States in the 1970s. Groups and churches that he planted pattern their gatherings around primitive Christian practices such as meeting in homes, writing their own songs, and meeting in an open, participatory style. These groups aim for a distributed ministry model in which no one in the group possesses greater authority than any other so that all will be encouraged to function and speak in the meeting.
Gene is an author of some thirty books.
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