Three Crucial Decades

Guest post by: Todd Bumgarner

I've been doing a lot of study in the book of Acts in preparation for a sermon series we're kicking off this coming Sunday in our young church plant. One of the books that has captured my attention has been Michael Green's Thirty Years that Changed the World.

Below is a the captivating opening paragraph from the book:

"Three crucial decades in world history. That's all it took. In the years between AD 33 and AD 64 a new movement was born. In those thirty years it got sufficient growth and credibility to become the largest religion the world has ever seen and to change the lives of hundreds of millions of people. It has spread into every corner of the globe and has more than two billion putative adherents. It has had an indelible impact on civilization, on culture, on education, on medicine, on freedom and of course on the lives of countless people worldwide. And the seedbed for all this, the time when it took decisive root, was in these three decades. It all began with a dozen men and a handful of women: and then the Spirit came."

-Michael Green, Thirty Years that Changed the World, p 7.