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Unit 2

Early

Christianity:

A.D. 30–1500

——— C H A P T E R 4 ———
When the church began; why we say the church was
Pentecostal in the beginning; the Kingdom comes in the
power of the Holy Spirit; Acts 1:8, the interpretive key to Acts;
the birth and spread of Christianity; kingdom, covenant, and
harvest related; Antioch as a pattern; the gospel goes to Africa
and blesses Christianity with strong leaders

——— C H A P T E R 5 ———
Ethiopia, Cush, and Sheba in Scripture and in a historical
context; the church in Egypt; the church in Nubia (Sudan);
the church in Ethiopia; why some churches collapsed and
others survived

——— C H A P T E R 6 ———
Christianity—from small sect to world religion; why sub-
Saharan Africa was neglected; persecution and official,
formal Christianity; the challenge of Islam.