I testify that I did not copy any of the material in the following make up essay that is a result of failing so badly on the “History of the Church”. I did pay attention during class, I did take notes and I did study in the evenings. The teacher was excellent, knowledgeable, and enlightening, the only reason that I can find for such a horrifically bad score is an unexplainable desire in my past to have everything related to religion taken out of my mind. This is something to do with the period of my life before I found the need to have Jesus in my life and that without this I could not function anymore as a human. Since that time I learned that this is part of my testimony and that things have changed in my life. Everything in my world
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Next, in my world since I wanted nothing to do with God, I could have cared less what was going on in history or current events as to the history of the church. Again, this is the exact opposite of my feelings and beliefs now. I cared so little in the past, I can remember that one time someone asked me what I thought of Martin Luther and my response was, “It 's a shame that in America we shot people we don 't agree with and after the Kennedy assassinations it didn 't surprise me in the least.” Now to any sane person I probably sounded crazy, but I honestly did not know the difference between Martin Luther King and Martin Luther. Neither one of them had anything to do with me or my world. My world was molded from lies, deceit, pain, punishment, shame, anger, and hatred. Well, with that introduction, I 'll now do the best that I can with 20 pages of notes that I took and let you know when I had blank information and had to do research to come to any form of intelligent …show more content…
In the Gospel of John chapter 17, Jesus in His prayer to the Father, repeatedly stated His wish for the Church which boils down to unity and oneness in the church, “ I pray for them, not the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.” He continues on with the most beautiful prayer that anyone could possibly pray about he bride and the church, this leads me to think that this has to be another picture of the
Next, in my world since I wanted nothing to do with God, I could have cared less what was going on in history or current events as to the history of the church. Again, this is the exact opposite of my feelings and beliefs now. I cared so little in the past, I can remember that one time someone asked me what I thought of Martin Luther and my response was, “It 's a shame that in America we shot people we don 't agree with and after the Kennedy assassinations it didn 't surprise me in the least.” Now to any sane person I probably sounded crazy, but I honestly did not know the difference between Martin Luther King and Martin Luther. Neither one of them had anything to do with me or my world. My world was molded from lies, deceit, pain, punishment, shame, anger, and hatred. Well, with that introduction, I 'll now do the best that I can with 20 pages of notes that I took and let you know when I had blank information and had to do research to come to any form of intelligent …show more content…
In the Gospel of John chapter 17, Jesus in His prayer to the Father, repeatedly stated His wish for the Church which boils down to unity and oneness in the church, “ I pray for them, not the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.” He continues on with the most beautiful prayer that anyone could possibly pray about he bride and the church, this leads me to think that this has to be another picture of the