Over the last couple of weeks, we have read a lot about a very specific part of God's story. We've read about how God's people are supposed to live like the people they are living with. We've read about how they are supposed to trust the Holy Spirit to help them be brave and patient and kind.
Last week, we even spent our whole time reading just about Church.
There's a reason for all of that. There are people who study God's story for a job. Instead of learning to be engineers or farmers or teachers, they went to school to learn how to be a theologian. Those theologians have a name for the time that we are living in right now. Actually, it's a name for the whole time between the book of Acts and the time when Jesus comes back.
They call it the church age.
Now, that's just a fancy way of saying that Jesus is in heaven right now, and that He left His people, the Church, here on earth to keep telling his story. And, well, it would be hard to talk about the “church age” if we didn't know what the Church was.
But, for this week, I want to tell you a different story, one about two specific people named Chris and Mary, who had to practice being incarnational and let the Holy Spirit teach them how to start a church in a place that was very different from where they used to live...
Download a PDF of the entire story with activity pages here.
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