By Rena Pederson
In The misplaced Apostle award-winning journalist Rena Pederson investigates a bit recognized topic in early Christian history—the existence and occasions of the feminine apostle Junia. Junia was once an early convert and best missionary whose tale was once “lost” whilst her identify used to be masculinized to Junias in later centuries. The misplaced Apostle unfolds like a well-written detective tale, proposing Pederson’s full of life look for perception and knowledge a few lady a few say was once the 1st lady apostle.
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They could administer the sacred rites (Acts 6:1; 16:33; 20:11). They could make laws (Acts 15:29). The concept of the differing gifts for ministry begins to be explained through the charges to the earliest apostles: It was he who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, to prepare God’s people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.
The world has never been the same. Nor would I ever be the same. I was gaining a new appreciation of what arduous work was done to take the Jesus movement all the way from tiny Palestine to faraway places. I was learning that it required traveling weeks on rough cargo boats, miles by foot, and then witnessing a person at a time, a house at a time. As I tried to follow the sketchy trail of references to the first believers, I began compiling a larger and larger library about the early church. When I ran out of space on the sofa, I started more stacks on the floor.
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