S2: BBQ and Wine (Cultural Christians in the Early Church)
Cultural Christians in the Early Church
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Difficult questions remain for churches to answer when it comes to issues of food and sin. Just as in the earliest Christian communities, Christians today are finding ways to be countercultural in their use of food to minister to others and build relationships both within the church and outside of it.
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S3: (Un)Holy Bodies, (Un)Holy Minds (...
Christianity challenged this use and abuse of human bodies as displays of
personal power by requiring all believers to have holy bodies and holy minds. This meant, in particular, erasing the double standard that the Roman world
had toward men’s and women’s sexuality. -
S4: Trouble in Bithynia (Cultural Chr...
This session focuses on the nature and impact of cultural sin in producing
apostasy in the early churches. The allure of culture sometimes proved more enticing than the countercultural community of the gospel, and some chose to leave Christianity as a result. -
S5: Unexpected Martrys (Cultural Chri...
Many of the challenges that women in the church had to confront in the third century CE have proven surprisingly persistent and attest to the challenge
of resisting the gendered aspect of cultural Christianity.
