"Just what Message DID the Apostles proclaim for their King?" This is the question that this book strives to answer in this book.
The author has spent fifty years studying this question. For a long time he wanted to know what the apostles proclaimed first to people. The Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament actually preserves some of the content of what the Apostles proclaimed in nine or ten (depending on what a person includes) examples. Luke, the author of 'The Acts of the Apostles' has preserved these and intimates that none of them are an effort to present EVERYTHING that the apostle said on each occasion. Rather, he seems to present salient features of each presentation. Nonetheless, suspecting that the whole body of initial teaching might be found by examining these preserved messages, finding the constituent parts, and assembling these parts together, one might arrive at a fair approximation of what all was communicated to prospective disciples initially. This book will take you through the process and culminates in an attempt to express the whole body of teaching that seemed to be heralded by the Apostles. Not surprisingly, the result is what is essentially a summary of one of the four Gospels in the New Testament.
The author's hope and desire is that modern Christian disciples would return to proclaiming the same message that the early disciples proclaimed.
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Martin H. Koestler was born in the middle of the last century (1950). The vast majority of his schooling was in Christian educational institutions. He attended college at Concordia Teachers College (now Concordia University) at Seward, Nebraska, majoring in Music Education and received a Bachelor of Science in Education degree. Later he graduated from Concordia Theological Seminary, Springfield, Illinois/Fort Wayne, Indiana with a Master of Divinity degree.
He served as a pastor of local assemblies of Christians in Interlaken, New York, and in the following cities of Minnesota - Aurora, Hamburg, Wykoff, and Preston.
He spent ten years in Jinan City, Shandong Province, People's Republic of China as a worker/evangelist, working as a professor of English in two different universities.
He has been a serious student of the Bible for over fifty years, taking as many Greek and Hebrew courses in the seminary as he possibly could and continuing his study in the biblical languages ever afterward, because he really wanted to be able to share with people what the Bible actually says. He also has a keen interest in knowing what the patristic fathers had to say about the Bible. These traits are evident in his books, videos, Bible studies, and messages.
He and his wife Xiyan currently live in Rochester, Minnesota.
