Apostle

The last supper was the final meal Jesus Christ would share with his apostles before being crucified. It was at this last supper that Christ foretold the coming betrayal by one of his closest followers, saying, “Truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me” (ESV Mark 14:18). Leonardo returned to this same portion of scripture…

the Apostles and towards God. The painting promotes the idea that the Apostles, the Virgin Mary, and God are powerful, religious, and it promotes the Catholic Church. Titian’s use of the color red promoted the idea of power and referred to the Catholic Church through its use of the…

He is the creator. The apostle wants us to know and understand that God helps those whom believe in him and love him. God will chose people whom truly love him and whom worship him. These are the people that will be chose on for his predestination. Those chosen will be formed into…

role, the church fulfills her task. In this paper, we will explore how these three aspects of the body come together to do just that. The History of Leaders There was no doubt who the leaders were in the early church of Jerusalem because the apostles, Christ’s…

Pentecost, the birth of the Church, is a defining event in Christianity. Without the coming of the Holy Spirit upon the apostles, our Church may not exist. The power of the Holy Spirit propelled the Church outward from Jerusalem to the ends of the earth. Pentecost is not the first time the Holy Spirit appeared. The Holy Spirit is present in the Old Testament, in the ministry of Jesus and then culminates for all time at Pentecost. The Holy Spirit, the third person of the Trinity, is present in…

chapter talks about Ananias and Saphirra. When you sell a piece of property, you’re supposed to give ALL the money to the apostles, so that they could use it to benefit God’s kingdom. Instead, Ananias kept part of the money for himself. This shows that he had a lack of faith that God would provide for his needs. He would’ve been better off giving up all the money to the apostles, because if he did, God would give him exactly what he needed. But because he didn’t, God killed him to teach us a…

The Expanded Kingdom As starting off reading pages 193-231, the expansion of Christ’s Kingdom through the experiences and ministries of the apostles start off with the Acts: Volume 2 of Luke, he informs the reader of three things and they are: “first reliable traditions about Jesus and the early Christian movement have been handed down by eyewitnesses, second Luke has made careful investigation of these experiences and reports and third, he dedicates his work to the reader’s knowledge and…

David, Solomon, Isaiah, Ezra and Moses (Harris, 2014, p. 387). Scholars believe these pseudonymous writings were not intended to deceive others into believing they were the works of the pseudonymous writer, but to perpetuate the beliefs of the apostle in which the writings were prescribed. Unlike authorship of today, this practice was not necessarily uncommon, and was widely accepted as the writer was free to utilize their master’s name to compose writings to further, what…

mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.” This means that a person may not only be called to preach but also to be an apostle as well. Followers of Christ need to remember not to let themselves be absorbed with the titles that they hold, but to be servants to all like Jesus. Jesus is the prime example of the fivefold ministry. Apostle is a word…

culture are much attributed to diligence of Apostles and evangelization in the first 500 years of the Church’s existence. The preaching and missionary trips of Apostles; influence of the local church; the Christian scholar taught upper class of Pagan society and the most crucial one------ the moral standards of followers, efficient of these evangelization…