Excerpt from A Short History of the Baptist Denomination Jesus of Nazareth instituted a way of life compell ing enough for hundreds of modern denominations to see in it the initiation of their sects, but, as Peabody says, hardly any problem of exegesis is more dif ficult than to discover in the gospels an administra tive or organizing or ecclesiastical Christ. When the two disciples of John the Baptist followed Jesus as their Messiah, the church was conceived, but its birthday was at Pentecost when three thousand new ...
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Excerpt from A Short History of the Baptist Denomination Jesus of Nazareth instituted a way of life compell ing enough for hundreds of modern denominations to see in it the initiation of their sects, but, as Peabody says, hardly any problem of exegesis is more dif ficult than to discover in the gospels an administra tive or organizing or ecclesiastical Christ. When the two disciples of John the Baptist followed Jesus as their Messiah, the church was conceived, but its birthday was at Pentecost when three thousand new believers were convicted by Peter's preaching that the crucified Jesus was alive, both Lord and Christ. Some Heilenistic Jews complained that their widows were neglected, and so seven deacons were appointed to re lieve the apostles of serving tables. It was Paul who emancipated the gospel from legalism and ceremonial Observances, who proclaimed the reality of the union of a believer with Christ, symbolized by the ordinances of baptism and the Lord's Supper, and who had only the boundaries of the Roman empire as limits of his audience chamber. The characteristics of the early churches were their independence, equality of ministers, their deacons, regenerate church member ship, and ordinances of baptism and the Lord's Sup per. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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