It is the year 17 A.D. in Nazareth. Three young men, all twenty-one years old, begin their training to serve God. Two of the three men leave Nazareth. They are traveling to the holy city of Jerusalem to study and train in the temple.
One young man stays in Nazareth. Each day he will go to work in a carpenter shop. In that shop, he will sweat and get blisters on his hands. He will learn to handle grumpy customers. Most of all, he will be immersed in the daily grind of working for a living.
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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