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Introduction: First-century patterns for twenty-first-century ministry -- The greatness of the Great Commission : Jesus' post-Resurrection ministry -- Witnessing, key to planting a new church : the Disciples' task -- Saturating a community with the Gospel : the Jerusalem church -- A layperson helping to plant a church : the church in Samaria -- Reaching out to a different kind of people : the church in Caesarea and Antioch -- Plodding through problems with purpose : the churches of Galatia -- Reaching your personal sphere of influence : the church at Philippi -- Building a people-loving ministry : the church at Thessalonica -- Building a Bible-based ministry : the Berean church -- Presenting the Gospel to the secular mind : the church at Athens -- Building a ministry team that ministers : the Corinthian church -- Building people who build other people : the Ephesian church.