This document outlines key aspects of early Christianity such as baptism, prayer centered on Christ, celebration of the Eucharist, sharing property, and the first persecution where Stephen was stoned. It describes the Council of Jerusalem where it was decided that Gentile converts did not need to follow Jewish laws. The document also summarizes Paul's three missionary journeys where he established churches in places like Cyprus, Macedonia, Corinth, and Ephesus and wrote many New Testament letters.

4.  Christian Baptism
 Christian Prayer
 Worship centered on
Christ the Lord
 The Celebration of the
Eucharist
 Practice of Christian
love
 Surrender of private
property
 Sharing all things in
common
Suspicion of
the Jews
Rejection of
the Jews
Hostility of
the Jews

5.  First Outbreak of
Persecution
 STONING OF
STEPHEN
 Christians were
accused by the Jews
as
DESERTERS and
TRAITORS
The
SEPARATION
of the Jews
and
the
Jew-
Christians.

7. The Center of the Greek-Roman
culture of Hellenism
The First Gentile Christian
Community
Consisted primarily of non –
Jews
A religious community ;
Distinctively Christian in nature
Its members were called

9.  The FIRST Journey
 38 – 48 CE ( 10 YEARS )
 Cyprus
 Barnabas
 The First Council of the Church
THE COUNCIL OF JERUSALEM

13.  PETER:
 “ Our Belief is
rather that we are
saved by the favor
of the Lord Jesus;
and so are they.”
- Acts 15:11
 James the Just:
 “ It is my judgment
therefore that we
ought not to cause
God’s Gentile
Converts any
difficulties.
- Acts 15: 19 - 20

14. It broke all barriers to the
Universality of the Church.
It was a Great turning point
in the History of the Church
and of the World.

15.  The SECOND Journey
 49 – 52 C.E. ( 4 years )
 Revisiting and Founding of the Churches
 Silas, Timothy and Luke
 First Christian Community in Europe
( Philippi in Macedonia )
 Preached to PAGAN Philosophers
 Corinth – 18 mos. With Priscilla & Aquila
 Ephesus, Jerusalem And Antioch

16.  The THIRD Journey
 57 C.E.
 Canonical Letters:
Corinthians2, Romans, Galatians,
Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians,
Thessalonians2, Timothy2, Titus, Philemon.