Christ died for our sins. Christ was buried. Christ was raised on the third day. Christ appeared to many.

This is the explicit gospel that the Apostle Paul preached as he called people to follow Jesus (1 Corinthians 15:3-8). It was this gospel that shaped people in Jesus, leading them into an entirely new way of life — God's way of life.

But how? How did these facts — the death, burial, and verified resurrection of Jesus — shape the first disciples? And how should these facts shape us today? What does it look like to root our lives in the gospel? How does the gospel take hold of us in such a way that we are moved from darkness to light, addiction to freedom, malice to love, indifference to hospitality?

What were their practices? Because whatever they did we should do.