HOW GOD CHANGED the FIRST CHRISTIANS’ VIEW of CULTURE

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HOW GOD CHANGED the FIRST CHRISTIANS’ VIEW of CULTURE HOW DID GOD DO THIS and WHAT DOES THIS MEAN for YOUTH MINISTRY? john m. dettoni, ph.d.

Basic Question the First Christians faced: Basic Question the First Christians faced: Who can be a follower of Jesus? Jews? Converts to Judaism? Pagans?

Are there any ethnic and/or cultural requirements (and age, sex)?

First Church in Jerusalem: Background -two groups of people in world: Jews = God’s chosen - good guys Others, Gentiles, Heathen = bad guys

Perspective: all wrong. See Acts 1:8 (Jerusalem, Judea, Samariah, to ends of the earth); Mt. 28:19 (all nations)

I. Acts 2:5 - 12

II. Acts 6:1 - 7

III. Acts 4:32 -37

IV. ACTS 10:1 - 43

V. Acts 11:1-30

VI. Acts 11: 29-30

VII. Acts 15:1 - 40 Jerusalem council

VIII. Acts 19:1 - 41

QUESTIONS BASED on ABOVE PORTIONS of ACTS: How did God change the Early Christian Church from being part of Judiasm to being trans-cultural?

SO WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH YOUTH CULTURE?

Is today’s Christianity culture bound Is today’s Christianity culture bound?!? How should church culture CHANGED?