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  • Church History

    CH03 The Didache
    The Didache is a book that contains very straightforward and simple instructions about life, closely akin to parts of the Sermon on the Mount (Matt. 5-7). It speaks directly to how to live day-to-day as well as how to conduct core services as a church, or group of believers. It was used as a guide […]
    11 years ago
    W. Mark Lanier
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    CH04 Martyrdom
    Christian martyrdom was typically the end result of extreme persecution, which may have been rooted in three broad categories: Jewish persecution of the church – which was an extension of their hatred of Jesus; persecution that arose from local interests – where Christian moralities may have upset the local economy; and government sponsored persecution – […]
    11 years ago
    W. Mark Lanier
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    CH05 Martyrs: Ignatius and Polycarp
    Ignatius of Antioch was the Bishop of the church at Antioch circa 110 AD. Typically Christians were charged with atheism because they would not worship Caesar as god and for this they were martyred. He wrote seven letters to the churches along his way from Antioch to Rome providing strong guidance in various Christian themes. […]
    11 years ago
    W. Mark Lanier
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    CH06 Early Church Worship-Part 1
    Many New Testament churches met in homes of the wealthy because these homes would have had enough room to accommodate the larger groups. The earliest official “church building” was a converted house in Dura-Europos, Syria, which is dated to have been converted around 250AD. Although there is not a record of how a typical service […]
    11 years ago
    W. Mark Lanier
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    CH06 Early Church Worship-Part 2
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    W. Mark Lanier
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    CH07 Heresies: Gnosticism
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    W. Mark Lanier
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    CH07 Heresies: Gnosticism Supplement
    11 years ago
    W. Mark Lanier
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    CH08 Part 1 Trinity
    Chapter 8 – Part 1: The Trinity – Biblical Basis There is not an explicit reference in our Bible that states, “The LORD your God is one God who in His oneness exists as three persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.’ It would be more accurate to say that the Bible reflects and expresses the […]
    11 years ago
    Melvin Tinker
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    CH08 Part 2 Trinity
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    Melvin Tinker
  • Church History

    CH09 Early Biblical Understanding
    Chapter 9 – Alexandria and Early Biblical Understanding Reading and understanding the Bible was challenging in the early Church as it is still today. When passages do not seem to make sense it opens up to interpretation. Many early leaders struggled with this and their writings shed some insight into prevalent thought. Philo, of Alexandria […]
    11 years ago
    W. Mark Lanier
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    CH10 Origins of the Canon-Part 1
    Summary The ‘canon’, what we consider our Bible, is ultimately the collection of writings that the church uses as its measuring stick…the defining reference for Christian faith. Christianity has two general canons, the Catholic canon and the Protestant canon. The Catholic canon includes writings commonly called the ‘Apocrypha’. Our Old Testament is essentially the same […]
    11 years ago
    Brent Johnson
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    CH10 Origins of the Canon-Part 2
    Summary Many early believers were martyred by the Romans and whatever ‘books’ they had…many early manuscripts for the New Testament…were burned. Nevertheless, we still have some original manuscripts that survived. Emperor Constantine (272-337) ordered Christianity as the the state religion of Rome. He ordered that copies of the New Testament be made to enable better […]
    11 years ago
    W. Mark Lanier

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