The Bible begins with the words, “In the beginning. God created the heavens and the earth” What a good concept to start with as I explore the Church of the first five Decades, New beginnings in the church of Christ.
The call to the apostle was a comprehensive one the Lord asked that each of His followers live the lifestyle of a true member. During the first century of the Church, Jesus Crucified had His Apostles and His disciples to manifest his ineffable love to the whole world. He filled them with the potent grace that they might transform pagan society; however, the expanding church entered into the question, whether Christianity should remain an obscure Jewish sect, or should become a church-wide open to all the world. The
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Here, Greek culture became personified and deified as the
ideal culture. In worship, Apollo was associated with healing and purification. Yet, as the “God
of Afar” or “Sun God,” man could know himself only in his distance from the god (Burkert,
Greek Religion, pp. 143, 147-49). At Ephesus, Paul encountered the goddess Artemis. The city
was the keeper of Artemis for the whole region? The goddess was housed in an elaborate temple
and represented by silver shrines again the presence of pagan deities”. (End Quote):
In summarizing a map of the proper course or setting of action for individual Christians lies on
The emphasis on future order the opportunity to worship and share the resurrected Christ.
The book of First Corinthians is the most comprehensive single study of the sectional church in
the New Testament. (I Cor.1:10).
"Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same
that there be. No divisions among you; nevertheless, that ye be perfectly joined together in the
identical mind and in the identical judgment "
With that verse in mind, a local church may be defined as a group of Christians meeting at