The Untold Story of the New Testamemt Church
by Frank Viola

Most believers have no idea what really happened in the first century church. We have a twisted idea of the church because we have a twisted idea of the New Testament and what happened in century one.

I believe there are two main reasons for our confusion. One is that the books of the New Testament are arranged according to size instead of chronological order. It's difficult to know what happened when because we don't read it the way it happened. Simply put, we just don't know "the story" of the first century church because we have never read it in the order that it happened.

The second reason is that we don't attempt to "see" the letters from the perspective of the people who received them, or the people who wrote them, for that matter. We don't know the cultural, social, or political environment that was the "seedbed" for the early church. Again, we just don't know the story!

Frank Viola does a masterful job of putting this whole story together in a way that we can all understand. He takes all the books and puts them together in the proper chronological order, and then "fills in" all the details that give us the complete picture of what happened and why.

This is a book that should be read by all true seeking believers. It should be read and reread until we all can say that we really do know the story of the New Testament church.

FRANK VIOLA is an internationally known speaker, a house church planter, and the author of six highly acclaimed books on radical church restoration, including Rethinking the Wineskin, Who is Your Covering?, Pagan Christianity, and The Untold Story of the New Testament Church. Frank lives in Gainesville, Florida. You can find out more about Frank's ministry and find out how to order this book by visiting Present Testimony Ministry.