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Ac. 6:1-4 "And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration./Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables./Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business./But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word."
It was of uncertain times. Famines were breaking out and pagan world was giving over to a new period of restlessness. In the midst of it all the church has to be run smoothly, obviously. At what cost was the crux of their problem. In the Acts of the Apostles Ch.6 we read that what Jesus had warned them was fulfilled. The church had their first martyr in St Stephen.
The disciples were sent as sheep in the midst of wolves. The line of development of the early Church from Jerusalem after the day of Pentecost took to the city of Rome, under the aegis of a suckling wolf. How the Church of Rome became the Possessor of pomp and circumstance and would become a new power centre is a matter of history;Papal Rome took over for instance Tyrian purple as in the times Caesars where the color was reserved under pain of death for only senators. Now Church of Rome forbade it for laity. This exclusivity has nothing with simplicity in Jesus and for his associates. It was a telltale sign of the new normal:
Leaving off simplicity obviously played into the hands of Satan, the problem is in the mind which became corrupted. Gospel of Jesus and consequently his simplicity gave way to confusion and controversy and it has stayed on ever since.
Ac. 6:1-4 "And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration./Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables./Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business./But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word."
It was of uncertain times. Famines were breaking out and pagan world was giving over to a new period of restlessness. In the midst of it all the church has to be run smoothly, obviously. At what cost was the crux of their problem. In the Acts of the Apostles Ch.6 we read that what Jesus had warned them was fulfilled. The church had their first martyr in St Stephen.
The disciples were sent as sheep in the midst of wolves. The line of development of the early Church from Jerusalem after the day of Pentecost took to the city of Rome, under the aegis of a suckling wolf. How the Church of Rome became the Possessor of pomp and circumstance and would become a new power centre is a matter of history;Papal Rome took over for instance Tyrian purple as in the times Caesars where the color was reserved under pain of death for only senators. Now Church of Rome forbade it for laity. This exclusivity has nothing with simplicity in Jesus and for his associates. It was a telltale sign of the new normal:
Leaving off simplicity obviously played into the hands of Satan, the problem is in the mind which became corrupted. Gospel of Jesus and consequently his simplicity gave way to confusion and controversy and it has stayed on ever since.
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