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I have started presenting a series on Bible History and Archeology at Memorial Road on Wednesday nights. If you are in the Oklahoma City area you are invited to come.

I am also posting the audio, worsheets and powerpoint for these lessons here on the website. You can find them on the sermons tab.

To do one of the lessons online, open the worksheet (word document) and print it to fill in during the lesson. Then open the PowerPoint, play the audio and follow along with the Powerpoint presentation as you fill in the worksheet. Starting with Lesson 2 there is also a test over the previous lesson.

Hope you enjoy learning more about Bible history.

In the religious world, “denomination” refers to a body of believers in Christ who consider their church to be only one group among many groups of the saved. The majority of these hold that a person is saved at the moment of belief in Christ and then may join any one of many denominations, each of which has equal standing with God.

Thus, in a city-wide evangelistic effort for all denominations as people confess Christ as their savior, they are told, you are now saved and may “join the church of your choice.” Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians and other denominations subscribe to this view.
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Perhaps the most amazing thing about the story told in the book of Acts is that from a beginning with only 120 disciples, the news about Jesus spreads throughout Judea, Samaria, Syria, Asia, and into Europe and Africa. In Jerusalem alone there were over ten thousand Christians in the first years. By the early centuries, Christians number in the millions.

Without modern mass media, without armies, without power or prestige, without much money, the gospel was spread more rapidly than it has ever been since. But how did this happen?
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