Sentences with phrase «persecuted early church»

But as we see with Peter who was a coward in his denial of knowing Jesus, and with Paul who actively persecuted the early church, that doesn't shut the door on grace.

This alliance with empire was a far cry from the persecuted early Church, despite some Fathers of the Church, like John Chrysostom, being faithful to the prophetic message of the gospel.

Not exact matches

So... maybe the facts about early church martyrs are sketchy, and maybe they are not, but there's no disputing that Christians today are persecuted around the world for their beliefs.

The real travesty is that out of the early Roman Empire emereged the Catholic church which in the past 1000 years has doe more to persecute followers of Christ then any other group.

I find it interesting how mega-church prosperity teachers want to talk about the very early days of the church of mega-crowds — without talking about their scattering — and how the persecuted church grew in people's homes and catacombs (I like the rhyme) for the next 300 years — until Constantine — the true father of many mega-church ministries.

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, American churches agitated for aid to persecuted Christian minorities in Ottoman Turkey.

Jesus was not directly opposed to the political rule of Caesar; indeed, the early church did nothing to protest the rule of Caesar, even as they were persecuted by the Roman Empire.