In 301 AD, Christianity first became a state religion. (I know that legend has it that Osrhoene established Christianity as its state religion in the 2nd century... but even if true, that was only for a short time.) In 301AD, Armenia became a "Christian nation." Eleven years later, with the Battle of Milvian Bridge, Christianity …
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As the apostles (vocational church planters) faded out in the 2nd and 3rd centuries, the local churches became the lead missionary entities. This had a positive aspect as the Christian faith slowly spread out from major Roman and Near East cities into the surrounding regions. Negatively, there seems to be less leaps of the faith …
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I am not sure how useful it is to do a review for a book that is 40 years old and no longer being printed. However, when the book was recommended to me, I easily found a second-hand copy online. "Church Members and Nontraditional Religious Groups" by Glenn A. Igleheart was published by Broadman Press …
One might think of the Jerusalem Council described in Acts 15 as codifying the first big transition in the church. At the council a major decision was made (or was identified that the Holy Spirit had already made it). That is that a Greek can become a Christian without also becoming (behaviorally or culturally) a …
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