CHRISTIAN HISTORY

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13 Weeks to a Better Understanding of Church
History
Introduction Why Study Church History?
CHRISTIAN HISTORY MADE EASY
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13 Weeks to a Better Understanding of Church
History
Introduction Why Study Church History?
CHURCH HISTORY
IS YOUR
FAMILY HISTORY
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Introduction Why Study Church History?
When writing about Church History, we have to go
back to the very beginning. Our Pastor was born
in 1930.
Charles Schulz, Peanuts, September 4, 1975
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How Well Do You Know Your Family?
Who

• was probably crucified upside down because he
  felt unworthy to die like his Savior?
• was a leading apostle in the early church?
• SIMON PETER (died around A.D. 64)

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How Well Do You Know Your Family?
Where

• did the earliest Christians probably meet for
  worship?
• does Romans 165 suggest that the earliest
  Christians gathered?
• HOUSES (Christians met in homes until the 3rd or
  4th century A.D.)

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How Well Do You Know Your Family?
Who

• claimed he saw a vision of Christs cross in
  the sky?
• was the first Roman emperor to claim that he
  was a Christian?
• CONSTANTINE (A.D. 272337)

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How Well Do You Know Your Family?
Who

• preached so eloquently that he was nicknamed
  Golden-Mouth?
• was exiled in A.D. 403 by the empress of the
  eastern half of the Roman Empire?
• JOHN CHRYSOSTOM (A.D. 347407)

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How Well Do You Know Your Family?
Who

• led a community of nuns in Bingen and believed
  she experienced divine visions?
• was accused of heresy in the 12th century?
• HILDEGARD OF BINGEN (10981179)

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How Well Do You Know Your Family?
Who

• has been called the Morning Star of the
  Reformation?
• translated the Bible into ordinary English in
  the 1300s?
• JOHN WYCLIFFE (13201384)

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How Well Do You Know Your Family?
Who

• wrote the hymn A Mighty Fortress is Our God?
  
• nailed Ninety-Five Theses to the door of a
  chapel in Wittenberg, Germany?
• MARTIN LUTHER (14831546)

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How Well Do You Know Your Family?
Who

• wrote The Institutes of the Christian
  Religion?
• is best known for his doctrine of
  predestination?
• JOHN CALVIN (14831564)

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How Well Do You Know Your Family?
Who

• studied Scripture to impress others and
  realized he hadnt yet trusted Jesus?
• became a leader of the Anabaptists, many of
  whom became known as Mennonites?
• MENNO SIMONS (14831546)

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How Well Do You Know Your Family?
Who

• was the first priest to perform a Mass in the
  western hemisphere?
• tried to stop exploitation of natives with his
  New Laws of the Indies?
• BARTOLOME DE LAS CASAS (14841566)

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How Well Do You Know Your Family?
Who

• wrote hymns such as And Can It Be and Oh
  For a Thousand Tongues?
• helped form a Holy Club that led to the
  formation of the Methodist Church?
• CHARLES WESLEY (17071788)

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How Well Do You Know Your Family?
Who

• was the famous 19th-century English pastor
  who preached at the Metropolitan Tabernacle in
  London?
• denounced American slavery?
• CHARLES SPURGEON (1834--1892)

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How Well Do You Know Your Family?
Who

• wrote a commentary that challenged
  19th-century liberalism?
• had to leave Germany in 1934 because he
  resisted Hitler?
• KARL BARTH (18861968)

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How Well Do You Know Your Family?
Who

• was imprisoned by the Nazis and executed in
  1945 after participating in a plot to assassinate
  Hitler?
• wrote The Cost of Discipleship?
• DIETRICH BONHOEFFER (19061945)

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How Well Do You Know Your Family?
Who

• preached to the largest crowd in history in
  Seoul, South Korea, in 1973?
• was once called the best loved American
  Christian?
• BILLY GRAHAM(born in 1918)

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13 Weeks to a Better Understanding of Church
History
Introduction Why Study Church History?

1. What is the church?
2. Some Christians dont care about church history.
   Why?
3. Why should Christians study church history?
4. In what ways could studying church history be
   similar to a family reunion?

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13 Weeks to a Better Understanding of Church
History
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