Acts 13 - Formative or Normative?

If God worked in particular ways to establish churches and the worldwide missionary endeavour, would it be so very strange if he continues to do so? Is it not better to say that what was formative for missions and church-planting should generally be normative for missions and church-planting? If we don't see it in our situations today, it is our situation and experience that needs to be aligned to the New Testament pattern, not the other way round.

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