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In Highlights from Christian History, Michael Gowens takes the extremely important, yet frequently daunting, theme of church history and attempts to distill it into crucial, defining events to help believers interpret the contemporary Christian landscape with accuracy. He sketches the key turning points in the 2,000 year history of Christianity in the context of the family known as "Baptists," a generally overlooked and dismissed group, but one that has sought to preserve the purity of the primitive, Apostolic pattern of New Testament church identity.

Early Christians first heard God's Word from someone reading it to them. The Scriptures were spoken, then recorded on the page. A prophet spoke, then he, or another, wrote down the words. Jesus spoke, then His disciples wrote down the words.