Sometimes we take the ancient view when we look at God's work in history. And sometimes we look at the Holy Spirit's activity in more recent events. In the 1970s in the U.S., God intervened to reach and rescue a generation. Today, we call them the Jesus People.
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If we don’t pay attention to where we’ve been in history, we lose the plot, and wander around disoriented. It happened at times in Scripture, and it can happen again today. As we study Church History, we keep our eyes on the plot of what God has done in the world, what He is doing, and what He will do.
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History is not only human history or church history — it’s the story of God Himself. If you’re going to study the work of God, you can’t avoid history, because God enters into human history, from start to finish. We also must know that there are going to be some glorious moments where we see what God is doing, but there will also be very disturbing moments. Church — and biblical — history is full of lots of ups and downs, potholes, and broken people. Even so, Ts study church history is more than to study groups of human beings who are doing it well or not doing it well. It is to study the works of God through human beings.
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