In times when the church was powerful, some sought to witness by employing that power, while others questioned the use of it. In times of persecution, some witnessed with their blood, others with their writings, and still others with their loving acceptance of those who had weakened, and later repented. They have also left the illuminating record of their striving to be faithful witnesses in the most diverse circumstances. What those earlier Christians have bequeathed to us, however, is more than the text of Scripture. Even in the darkest times of the life of the church, there were those Christians who loved, studies, kept, and copied the Scriptures, and thus bequeathed them to us. The second is that it has been through those sinners and that church - and only through them - that the biblical message has come to us. The first of these is that, while this narrative is the history of the deeds of the Spirit, it is the history of those deeds through sinners such as us. (.) At other times it will appear to many of us that the church has forsaken the biblical faith, and some will even doubt that such a church can be truly called "Christian." As such points in our narrative, it may be well to remember two things. There are episodes in the course of that history where it is difficult to see the action of the Holy Spirit. The Story of Christianity, Volume 1: The Early Church to The Reformation, Justo L.
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