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One night, I looked up in the air and said "Come on."
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"There must be more than just going to
a church and sitting there for two hours
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and listening to somebody preaching.
And at one time, I started to just read
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the Book of Acts -- read about the first
Christians, how they were living.
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They were not just sitting in the church
every Sunday and listening to a sermon.
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They saw how lives were changed
wherever they came.
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We know Constantine-He came, and he turned
Christianity into a state religion.
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We see through church history that this
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hierarchy, this institutionalized church, was
following us all the way to Reformation, when Luther came Calvin came, Sweeny came.
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They were trying to reform. They were trying to
bring us back to the real gospel,
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back to the Book of Acts. But they failed.
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Jesus said, "Go out and make disciples of all nations."
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God's given us the same authority and
the same power that Jesus himself had
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in the 1st century. "The harvest is
plentiful, but the laborers are few."