5: The Church Trimester 2: The Functionality of the Church - part three
The Lion Is In The Way From our last discussion : “The Church Trimester 2: Implementing the Way – part two,” we explored how it wasn’t easy for The Way to reach all of us Christians. In fact, it took almost 400 years of bloody persecution before we, around the world, could receive God’s plan, The Way, for the course our lives to follow. God’s plan was to create a global ecclesia—a worldwide community of Christians joined together at the heart of Jesus Christ. But when the “first batch” of Pentecostal disciples became “comfortable” in Jerusalem, it ignited an almost 400 year (A.D. 54 – A.D. 313) inextinguishable fire that would by no means surreptitiously spread the gospel. And this question was asked : So is it still not understood that persecutions, in varying degrees and forms, will strike us until we move back to The Way, and recognize and hear His Voice, thereby properly function in accordance to His pattern for success identifying with Christ as