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How to Spread the Gospel Like Wildfire

“Daily in the temple, and in every house, they did not cease teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ.” – Acts 5:42

The Gospel spread like wildfire in the early church. For example, a single speech from Peter converted 3000 people (Acts 2:41), and after he gave a second speech, the number of believers totalled 5000 (Acts 4:4). In only a few decades, the Good News of Jesus Christ spread from Jerusalem to the entire Mediterranean, including Rome itself. But why? And how can we make it spread like that again?

Method of preaching

Entire books have been written on this subject – the early church did a lot of things that today’s church should copy. But one thing the early church did supercharged the spread of the Gospel. It had to do with the method of preaching. The first century church preached God’s Word in a way you

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