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After the first century, the Church continued to have disagreements. When the Constantine declared he was a Christian, the Church became mainstream. With that change, there was an influx of people into the Church that may or may not have been truly converted--Christianity was now "hip." The creeds and councils from this era are what shaped modern Christianity for better or for worse (heavy on the worse).

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Acts 15 gives us an inside looks at two disagreements within the church: one personal and one involving the whole body. It sets a foundation for how we should handle conflict, and surprisingly it doesn't always turn out the way many people would have you believe. Spoiler alert: neither Paul nor Barnabas backed down from their point.

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Who was Lucius of Cyrene? Who was Simeon called Niger? What did church leadership look like and what should our focus be?

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Acts 12 can be boiled down to the topics of pride, morality, and hope. We see these traits manifested in Herod, Peter, and Rhoda. In this episode we're going to talk about how these traits manifest in each of us.

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The US was built on division. This idea permeates through every fiber of our being. Despite being victims of oppression, assimilation, and injustice, we take these same ideals and inflict them on others (as well as ourselves). We are fighting a war as an army of one when we could be fighting as a united front. There is a history of minority groups being pitted against each other and it's time that we educate ourselves on the way white supremacy is propagated and inflicted between minority groups. It’s time #BlackLivesMatter to everyone.

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Saul went from killing Christians to being an Apostle--the one who wrote a large majority of the New Testament in fact. How the Church dealt with his conversion says a lot about how we should be functioning today and is revealing of how The Spirit works. We need a whole lot of improvement in this area.

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A major transition happened in the course of Christianity after the stoning of Stephen--the Word began to be preached to the Gentiles! In this episode we cover:

Acts 6-7: The Stoning of Stephen

Acts 8: Philip Preaches to the Samaritans & an Ethiopian

Acts 10-11: Preaching to the Gentiles

We'll get back to the conversion of Paul in Acts 9 next week! Also, what exactly does it mean to be a Gentile?

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Is it weird that we never talk about the Church's origin story? How did the disciples go from the Jerusalem to spreading Christianity around the world? What did their church families look like and how closely does it resemble what we have/do today? Today we're talking about how often they met, how much the shared, and the gift of tongues. Follow along in Acts 1-5.

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Why do we call it "the Bible?" How many books are included in Scripture? Well, that depends on if you ask a Protestant, a Catholic, or a member of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Yet this never seems to come up in Church conversations... Let's bring it up now.

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