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-====== The Hands of the Apostles ... ======
+====== Intense Early Church Life ... ======
 Monday, May 7, 2018. We have been looking into the biblical book of Acts, the history of the
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 times. Life was threatened, for many people, in particular for the early Christian church.
-At the same time we hear abouot appreciation, about high esteem, about faith, about people joining the
+At the same time we hear about appreciation, about high esteem, about faith, about people joining the
 church, both men and women. And we hear about healing, about the sick and those afflicted with mental or
 spiritual problems. It was definitely a quite intense time, the first years and decades in the early
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 ** Where are we today? ...**
-Where are we today with the our attitudes and our ideas about the early faith?
+Where are we today with the our attitudes and our ideas about the early faith? In most churches, our life
+is a little less intense today. But that can be an illusion, if you consider the church on a global scale.
+Faith is threatened in many places and countries. Freedom of faith is threatened a lot, and violence
+towards Christian activists is quite widely spread. But God is there, where ever people of faith move
+forward, spread the word and love their neighbors.
+But the problems are much deeper. Our overall situation is not much different from New Testament times. There
+is still the spiritual question: where are we? Where is our life? Do we recognize God? Do we live our
+life with him, or without him? Are we separated from the creator? Or are we healed, reconciled? Have we
+found him? Did we get into a relationship to the most high? Are we filled with faith? With truth? With
+love?
+We could talk much about what is driving our society. We could talk much about motivation, about fear,
+about mistrust, which is everywhere! We will go further and talk through what moves mankind ...
 (Roland Potthast)
 [[http://www.jesusnetwork.eu/en/topics_collection_ix|... further texts]]
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