1. Book of God Reading for the Week
Read pages 1 – 19
Quiz on Friday

2. Acts 1-2
Read them

3. Read Introduction on page 2
Chapter 1
Read Introduction on page 2

4. Jews Response to Christ
What was it?
John 10:22-42
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Our Christian faith has its ancestry in the Hebrew religion
Jesus said the Spirit would come as a sign His followers should go evangelize
Matthew 28:16-20
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5. Galatians 4:4 – Physical Preparedness
“When the fullness of the time came, God sent forth is son.”
What time period did Christ come in?
Roman
Benefits?
Peace in a place of constant tribal warfare
Created a network of roads and bridges
Cleared the sea of pirates
What did these conditions do?
Created easy movement for the messengers of Christ

6. Spiritual and Intellectual Preparedness
What language was being used all over the Roman Empire?
Greek
How could Greek philosophy help Christianity?
Made them doubt Greek gods and mythology
People were missing something and along came Christianity
Peace, pardon from sin, forgiveness, life, etc.

7. Go Over Assignment
Read Chapter 1
Answer questions 1,2, 5, 7, and 9.

8. Read Acts 3

9. Assignment for Tuesday
Read Chapter 2
Answer questions
1,2, 3, and 4

10. Chapter 2 – The Church is Tempered
Page 7 AD

11. The Heroic Age of the Church
“They have persecuted me, they will also persecute you”
Who first persecuted Christians?
Jews
Then?
The Roman Government

12. Nero A fire took place in 64 A.D.
Christians were blamed by Nero
Terrible persecution began
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13. Other Persecuted Christians
Ignatius
Was arrested and sentenced to be killed by wild beasts
What did he say?
Polycarp
Last one to be personally taught by the disciples
Was called an atheist for not believing in the gods
He called the crowd an atheist…
Burned to death – would not deny Christ

14. Persecution under Marcus Aurelius
Decreed the property of Christians was to be given to their accusers
What did this cause?

15. Diocletian and Galerius
Performed horrible acts of persecution from
Churches destroyed and Bibles burned
Systematic killing of the Christians
Christians hid in the catacombs of Rome
Why did Galerius end this persecution?

16. Read Acts 4
What happened in the last couple chapters?

17. Notes Timeline
See Page 10

18. Go over assignments
Q’s 1-4
Page 13

19. Assignment Read chapter 3
Do Questions 1, 3, 4 (first 2 questions), 5, 6, and 7.

20. ACTS 5 #HEOL

21. The Churches Inward Growth
Has to do with doctrine and its organization
Doctrine: means beliefs/set of beliefs
Is doctrine important?
Read section 2 on page 15

22. The Apostolic Fathers Came after the disciples
People taught personally by the apostles
Examples:
Clement
Ignatius
Polycarp
Barnabas
These people became apologists
What does apology mean?
An apologist is one who “defends what he believes to be the truth”
Why would they need to do this?
How would you go about doing this? – Justin Martyr pg. 16

23. False Teachings that Arose
Gnosticism
Belief:
Christ never dwelt on earth in human form
Montanism
Taught that Christ’s promise of the Comforter had not been fulfilled on Pentecost, but was coming and the end of the world was at hand
Church members response?
Read page 17 last paragraph in section 5

24. Out of the Struggle Emerged…
A Creed (I believe)
Apostle’s Creed was formed from the Apostles teachings
How did this counter Montanism and Gnosticism?
A Cannon (A list)
This is how the New Testament was formed
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An Organization…

25. The Episcopal (Overseer) Form of Church Government
The officers were the elders and deacons
Called presbyters (Greek for elder)
Originally all the same level
It was natural for one to take the lead
Bishop became the name for the leading presbyter
Greek word for one that rules alone is called monarch
Bishops became monarchical bishops

26. More Meanings of Words! Country folk didn’t know Christianity
They were called Pagani
Pagan became equivalent to heathen
Diocese was the city and the surrounding countryside
All of these names/forms of hierarchy came about gradually…

27. Work Time
Go over questions from chapter 3

28. ACTS 6 #HEOL

29. Assignment
Read the rest of Chapter 4
Answer questions 1,2, and 4

30. Acts 7

31. Book of God
19-46

32. Chapter 4 – Read Introduction
Page

33. Reintroduction to Constantine
lSA – Language
Results of the battle:
Constantine is master of the entire western part of the Roman Empire
Constantine became a Christian
Issued an edict (Edict of Milan):
Put a stop to the persecutions
Why didn’t Maxentius hide in Rome???

34. Turning Points in the Church
Church expulsion from Jerusalem
Paul’s missionary activities
Christians granted the same rights as other religions
Christianity was favored!!
Constantine built marvelous churches and prohibited work on Sunday
As for Constantine?...

35. The World Invades the Church
What did people do now that Christianity was the favored religion?
Joined the church
The problem?
Quantity reduced quality
What does church and state mean?
Read section 6 on page 27

36. Julian Fails to Revive Heathenism – 361 A.D.
Did his best to go back to heathenism
Failed to turn the Roman Empire back
How did he die?
Read last paragraph on page 28

37. Go over Chapter 4 Q’s
Page 28
1,2, and 4

38. Work on Next Assignment
Read Acts 8
Read Chapter 5
Answer Q’s:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8
Book of God
Pages 19-46

39. Acts 9

40. Near Future Events Test after chapter 5 Need to know Apostles Creed
Need to know chapters 1-5
Need to know bits about what we read in Acts so far

41. The Church Consolidates
Page 29 AD

42. Church Councils Councils: There were various kinds:
Meetings of church leaders where…
Important questions are discussed
Advice is carefully given
Decisions are made
There were various kinds:
Provincial – One province’s churches were represented
National – One country’s churches were represented
General/ecumenical – All country’s churches are represented

43. 4 Major Councils The Council of Nicaea – 325 AD
The Council of Constantinople – 381 AD
The Council of Ephesus – 431 AD
The Council of Chalcedon – 451 AD

44. Council of Nicaea Was Christ truly God? Athanasius vs. Arius
Read pages 30-31
Why is this important?
IF Christ is not God, than He could not save us
Can you picture this?
Quite a scene…

45. The Nicene Creed

46. The Council of Constantinople
Some bishops still disagreed
Orthodoxy – “Straight teaching” was still being tested
Council of Constantinople was held
Reaffirmed Nicene Creed
Trinity was affirmed
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit

47. The Council of Chalcedon
Still struggled with Christ being God and man
Established 3 things
Christ is God
Equally man
They exist without confusion, change, division, or separation
Two natures, one person
Fundamental Christian truths are represented in the Nicene Creed and Chalcedon Creed

48. Acts 10

49. 3 Great Christian Leaders
Ambrose
– 1:35
Jerome
Translated the Bible from Hebrew to Latin
Augustine
His Story
Read pages 35-37

50. Terms to know! Monk Manicheism Monastery Donatists Pelagianism
A man who withdraws from the world in order to devote himself entirely to meditation and religious exercise
Manicheism
Mixture of heathen and Christian thoughts
Light vs. darkness dualistic religious system
Monastery
Home for monks
Donatists
Didn’t believe those who denied the faith should be allowed in the church
Pelagianism
Denied that the human race had fallen in Adam

51. Council of Ephesus Rejected Pelagianism
Augustine said that we are born into sin
We can only be saved by the grace of God

52. Work Time

53. Metropolitan and Patriarchal Systems
Organization: Every diocese had a bishop
Step by step the Bishop of Rome acquired power
First: Bishops of large cities came to be seen as more important than bishops of smaller cities
Second: 5 cities arose as having special importance
Jerusalem, Antioch, Alexandria, Constantinople, and Rome

54. Bishops of these cities were known as patriarchs!

55. Jerusalem Held the mother church
First place Christians were persecuted
First council was held here

56. Antioch Followers of Christ were first called Christians
Paul labored here
Mother of many churches
Contained a theological school
3rd largest city in the empire

57. Alexandria Second largest city in the empire
Center of learning and culture
Origen worked here

58. Constantinople
Important simply because Constantine had moved there!

59. Rome First city in the empire Paul and Peter had worked there
It was claimed Peter gave the bishops the keys to Rome
Controversies were always appealed to Rome
The bishop of Rome came to be called the Pope
Church came to be known as the Catholic church

60. Go Over Questions

61. El Fin
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