I took about 45 minutes the other day to review a PowerPoint presentation my friend from Church Dave McConnell put together. From my memory Dave taught a course at Southeast Christian on Church History. I remember going to his home at one point and borrowing the CD with this presentation. That had no be 2 years ago, but I rarely lose anything, especially if it belongs to someone else. It has been sitting in a folder with the label "return to others". Since I haven't seen Dave I've been holding onto this presentation also hoping to read through it at some point. Well as I said, I went through it this week.
Some of the info was review. Some information was new to me. Some information was eye opening. The takeaway I had was that history has been utterly impacted, guided and directed by Jesus Christ and his life, death and resurrection. Most of our history in the ancient world- most of our art- most of our architecture- most of our new discoveries- most of our great people came as a result of Christianity. They can revise the textbooks all they want but students and teachers will always come back to a Jewish carpenter who lived only 33 years on earth, died a substitute death, rose from the dead, divided time and created a following based on love, and let's be honest not even the gates of hades will not overcome Christ's church.
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