From the Foreword - This short work is a treatise on treating the Early Church's gatherings as more than some long-forgotten dream, patterns that slipped from our grasp millennia ago, power that we've never known or experienced. Instead, together, we'll consider what we can know from the evidence of the New Testament - both in Acts and the Epistles - and we'll invite the Holy Spirit to illuminate our understanding and our attempts to emulate them. We won't be going after general admonitions directed toward the Early Church by Paul and the others; we want the specifics of what it looked like,...