He accepted a position as the assistant to the great AME Bishop Morris Brown in 1844. He became responsible for overseeing expansion in the western regions. His success was so highly tremendous that he was designated Saint Paul of the AME church. He helped initiate 72 new congregations and 47 churches which was a highly advanced arrangement between 1841 and 1844. His communique of his activities made the delegates in the AME General Conference so highly impressed that they elected him to the denomination’s Fourth Bishop in 1844.
These stopped the tyrants of the church in their tracks and paved a new route for the Protestant Reformation to begin. He had become the savior of religion. He helped hundreds if not thousands of people find God without having to pay a toll. People could now fix their fate and create their own through the bible, and not through a man who claimed to be God himself. He was the hero to religion itself, and this is how he was meant to be remembered.
In the novel “A Prayer for Owen Meany”, John Wheelright undergoes a spiritual awakening when Owen Meany is killed. Owen Meany, John’s lifelong best friend, has faith in God and believes himself to be an instrument of God, a belief which John does not share until after Owen’s death. However, from the very beginning of the novel, it is clear that Owen was instrumental in the development of John’s faith. In fact, John says, “he is the reason I believe in God; I am a Christian because of Owen Meany” (Irving, 1).
He changed it educationally, and he helped spread Christianity. He fearlessly conquered many nations and places. He governed over them well and tried his best to educate them and make them smarter. He was an amazing leader and a good example to his people. He was not like a lot of other conquerors who just ruthlessly conquered for power.
Matthew 3:1-3 ~ ESV "In those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea. "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. " For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah when he said, "The voice of one crying in the wilderness: 'Prepare the way for The Lord; make His paths straight.'" In this season, it can be easy to be distracted by all the things that must be done before Christmas.
As he grew up, Athanasius befriended monks and Herman’s of the desert including St. Anthony of Alexandria. He later wrote a biography on St. Anthony of Alexandria In 318 Athanasies became sectary of Alexander after ordained a deacon of Alexandria. Around the time Athanasies rote his first work, a theological thresher on the laceration which is still quoted extensively in christen theology and spiritual literature.
"I fell in love with the prophets and these men who had loved Christ; I reflected on all their words and found that this philosophy alone was true and profitable." Justin Martyr said this around the year 140 AD when he was speaking to a crowd. Justin Martyr began life as a Greek pagan and went through his life continuously looking for answers to his god questions. Today we will be talking about his early life, his search for a god, and his life as a Christian. His early life began with his birth around the year 100 AD in Flavia Neapolis (ancient Shechem, modern Nablus) in Samaria (the middle portion of Israel, between Galilee and Judea.)He was raised by Greek pagans and at the seven years old started his formal education.
He studied philosophy and theology in Alexandria. Athanasius succeeded Bishop Alexander when he died in 328, and during his first few years in office he went to places like Libya and Egypt, and he got important contacts with Monks while there. In between this time, he was exiled many times, but returned home for a few years of
His Apostles were individuals known as; Paul, Mathew, Mark, Luke, and John. The illustrated map, shows Paul the Apostle traveling and hearing stories of Jesus criticizing those who truly believed in him however, it was until Paul met Jesus resurrected that changed his life. He then traveled throughout the eastern Mediterranean world for the next thirty years “spreading Jesus’s teachings” (Doc F). This parable shows that the spread of the Gospel could possibly change the minds of people who don’t believe until you show them otherwise. In the Roman Empire, there was a difference in beliefs of how to rule.
He then returned back to Poland where he became bishop. He later participated in the Second Vatican Council. In the council, he would help renew church doctrine and examine its position in the world. In 1978, he would become the pope of the Catholic Church.
While writing his eyes are filled with tears and his heart swell with adoration. After writing about crucifixion, he plans to add more after gathering information from Mary and Jesus’ disciples. He visits many places and gets firsthand information about Jesus. The physician meets James and John ‘Sons of thunderstorm’ (465),informs them that he is a Christian and about the gospel he is writing. John starts explaining about Christ’s miracles and His teachings, John the Baptist and the great revelations.
John present to us that who Jesus is at the very center of the Gospel of John. Carson tells us that the “Son of God” can roughly serve synonymn for “Messiah”. All the Synoptic Gospels wrote that Jesus is the Messiah, and the Son of God. Salvation:
So in John 15:1-8 it seems that he was warning them not to be like Judas but to remain in the
The author is referenced several times in the New Testament starting in the book of Acts and finally in the book of Mark was probably written in Italy, and perhaps even Rome. This book has 16 chapters and is the shortest book of the four gospels. However, the details of the events and miracles of Jesus in this book are
Besides Jesus, Paul, who called himself as an Apostle, was influential in the beginning of Christianity. People even claimed him as the “founder of Christianity”. Paul was the one that brought Jesus’s message to the world. He went on three missionary journeys, and the fourth journey to Rome in order to spread Christian faith and the development of its various institutions. In addition of his responsible of geographically and culturally expanding Christian movement, he also extended it as well as ethnic lines.