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Evangelicals and the Early Church

February 12th, 2008 | 1 min read

By Keith E. Buhler

Christianity Today asks the question: Why are evangelicals connecting with the early church as they move into the 21st century?
"We confess that we have often lost the fullness of our Christian heritage, too readily assuming that the Scripture and the Spirit make us independent of the past. In so doing, we have become theologically shallow, spiritually weak, blind to the work of God in others and married to our cultures. … We dare not move beyond the biblical limits of the gospel; but we cannot be fully evangelical without recognizing our need to learn from other times and movements concerning the whole meaning of that gospel."

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