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31 Cards in this Set
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how does knowing our history help us?
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gives us a sense of personal history enables us to discover why we are the way we are, how it is that we havre certain traits, reactions, or stumbling blocks
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the ordination of premanent deacons once again like in the early church is an example of what?
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the church looking at their roots
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what is the model of the church as institution?
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the buildings
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what is the model of church as servant?
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we should care for everything and everybody like jesus did.
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how does it help a society whose people understand who and why they exist?
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we see how certain choices in the past led to certain out comes, and how we avoid the worst of both
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how is understanding the curch's past useful?
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in order to chose the future you must know the past first
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what is the model of the church as herald?
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the messenger to proclaim the word of God to all people everywhere
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What are the consequences of being a part of the model of church as Disciple of Christ?
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people whose lifestyle stands in contrast with the rest of society.
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what is the crucial event in the life of the church?
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the resurrection of Jesus
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how did the apostles change after pentecost?
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the weren't afraid anymore and they could speak in different languages
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what was the first major dilemma in the early church?
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the new christians had to decide whether they had to follow the jewish law
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what was the good news that hte apostles were preaching?
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jesus had been raised from the dead and had appeared to them
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why was antioch a special church community?
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first place the term christian was used and it had gentiles and jews living in harmony and peter died there
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what problem did the council of jerusalem solve?
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they didn't need to follow the jewish law like many other jews did.
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who accompanied paul on his second missionary journey?
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silas and timothy
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where did early christians meet to celebrate the eucharist?
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at people's houses
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how did it help paul to be a roman citizen?
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he expelled a demon from a furtune telling girl
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the final book of the new testament was written roughly what year?
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100 ce
revelation |
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define epistle
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a letter
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did paul write general letters of specific letters addressing specific situations?
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specific letters
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why were the gospels finally written down?
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easier to spread the good news. first hand people were dieng off
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was the first gospel written before or after paul wrote his letters?
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after
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what were the first orders or official positions in the early church?
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bishops and deacons
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after the temple was destroyed why did rome become the center of christianity?
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peter died in rome and it was the imperial capital
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what things did christians do that made them disloyal in the eyes of the romans?
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they refused to sacrifice to pagan gods and would not join the army
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define apostate?
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people who had denied their faith
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edict of milan
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granted freedom of worship to christians in the roman empire
313 constantine wrote it |
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arianism
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a heresey that taought that jesus was in between human an dgod.
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apostasy
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everything is evil and jesus is divine but not human. the human body is evil also
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gnosticism
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founded by irenaeus
you need a special knowledge to get into heaven and only they had it |
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pacifism
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a now violent way of life
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