This collection of seven books is one ordinary person’s exploration of the relationship between God and the human race, centred around the revelation of Jesus Christ who became One of Us in order that humanity could, in turn, share in the life within God.
In The Jigsaw Puzzle Church, the fourth book in the Collection, Michael Mahony takes us upon a journey alongside the extraordinary variety of early Christian communities which emerged in the years immediately following the Resurrection of Jesus. During the first thirty years, AD 33-67, the Church had effectively no written New Testament Scriptures, and for the second thirty years, AD 67-100, virtually no leadership by the original Apostles. Nonetheless, these communities survived to become the Church of the 2nd Century.
The Jigsaw Puzzle Church
n this, the fourth book in the collection, the author draws heavily from seminal works by Edwin Hatch in the 19th Century and Raymond E. Brown in the 20th to identify how this came about. The insights prove to be remarkably applicable to The Church of the 21st Century.