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 [[File:Pentecost.jpg|thumbnail|left|250px|The disciples receiving the Holy Spirit]]Once Jesus allegedly ascended into heaven (Acts 1) his apostles were tasked with the mission of building the church and spreading the Gospel (Matthew 28:19). By looking at Acts of the Apostles and several other extra-biblical texts scholars have pieced together a picture of how the apostles went about this mission--how it was that they began the spread of the Christian movement and organized the earliest Christian communities. In what follows I will give a brief account of what the early church looked like: how it became distinct from Judaism, how Christian came together and worshiped, how they organized the governing or hierarchical structure of Christian communities.