"The first Christians didn't have any power base whatsoever. They didn't control the local media...They didn't have massive popular numbers...They didn't have lines of clothing, entertainment, or holy hardware...Their assemblies could mostly be contained in people's houses...They didn't control any institutions - religious, educational, or political...They didn't have money, equipment, or rapid transport vehicles. Yet they created something like blind panic virtually everywhere they went. How did they do it?"
This is the question that Dan Phillips asks in The World-Tilting Gospel. It's really a great question when you consider that modern evangelicalism has all of that stuff the early church did not, and I'm just not sure we're turning the world upside down.
How did they do it?
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