Peter's Persecution

The first letter that I would like to respond to is by Phyllis. She believes that true Christianity should always be happy and that no Christian should talk with a negative tone. A part of Christianity is helping those who are sinning to stop sinning. Revelation 3:19 states, “As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.” That passage is proof that true Christian love is sometimes shown by harsh rebuke. Accordingly, when we love someone, we wish for them to go to heaven. If

When reading through the book of Luke, specifically Luke 4:16-30 social justice comes front and center almost immediately as Jesus is handed a scroll of the book of Isaiah. Jesus, not being one to shy away from teaching, read this book out loud and brought focus to an issue that many of us face today. The question of who is the Gospel for? Who are we as Christians, meant to share the good news with? Socially are we supposed to go outside of our comfort zones to reach those who, the Church or Society has deemed as un-teachable? This is what we will be looking at in this paper.

The Book of Philippians is a letter of appreciation of and gratitude for the fellowship and support received from the church in Philippi written by the Apostle Paul while he was still imprisoned in Rome. In verses 12-14 he reminds them that he had not committed any crime deserving of imprisonment, but he was in prison solely because he was a follower of Jesus Christ and had been sharing the Gospel throughout Rome. He wanted them to understand that even though there was a possibility of him losing his life that they should not be frightened by this because ultimately this circumstance served to further the advancement of the gospel.

The first step in the interpretive journey process is to take the text and search for the original situation surrounding it and to search for how the text was interpreted by the biblical audience, thus grasping the text in their town. First Peter was written in Rome from “the late A.D. 50s or early 60s.” Apostle Peter wrote 1 Peter as a letter addressing the Christians in the Asia Minor who where undergoing persecution, to encourage them and to teach them “holy conduct” that they should practice during this time of suffering. The meaning for the biblical audience was intended to remind them to put their

While both books of Mark and Matthew portray Peter as one of the most important followers of Jesus, Mark seems to emphasize Jesus' spiritual career unlike the broad, more in-depth pursuit of Jesus' life that Matthew embellishes on. As both Jesus' student and friend, Peter is the one disciple most commonly referred to in the stories. Yet the two passages seem to draw different pictures of Jesus' distinguished disciple. In Matthew, Peter seems to play a larger role in Jesus' teachings and seems more significant to Jesus throughout the book. In Mark, he is still important, but to a lesser extent in the eyes of the author. Mark leaves Peter out of a few of the stories altogether and only touches

In the first part of this letter, Paul has given instructions on how to get to heaven. Here, he tells us what we should be doing on our journey there: rescue the lost and help others with their burdens.

Chapter two starts off with the author talk about his education of true christian counseling before settling on one called the discipleship approach (Collins, 23). Readers explore some people-helper principals; starting with “the helper.” This principal starts out citing Paul’s letter to the church in Galatia in which Paul instructed the leaders there to “restore” the individuals who were apparently struggling with sin and other issues (23). Paul instructs that only those who are spiritual may help the struggling individuals so that the struggling individuals may get the real help they need by means of healthy, loving caring relationships. In principal two, we learn how to help people that can be difficult to penetrate

This book was written by Paul the Apostle around 61AD, to the church in Philippi that he started around 49 – 51 AD during his second missionary journey, this is his first church in Europe (Acts Chapter 16). Paul reached the town through the harbor of Neapolis accompanied by Timothy, Silas and Luke (if the “we” in Acts 16:10 -17 included Luke). The first convert was Lydia however when writing this letter Paul does not include the happenings in Philippi when he was planting the church i.e. his imprisonment and the jailers conversion, his exit from the town and even the girl who had the spirit of divination. The Apostle Paul’s attachment to this church was great as seen in the words and terms used in this literary work. Two times, they had supported him financially before the writing of this letter and after they heard of his imprisonment, they sent Ephaproditus with another support and this prompted

Michelangelo Merisi de Caravaggio’s The Denial of St. Peter depicts the accusal of Peter for being a disciple of Jesus. Painted in 1610 on oil on canvas as was the emerging medium of paintings during the Italian Renaissance. It is on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the Caravaggio and Southern Italy room in the European paintings department. Caravaggio’s piece is relatively medium sized and place directly at eye-level.

Philippians The book of Philippians deals with praise, confidence and rejoicing. The book of Philippians was a letter written in prison by Paul in 62 A.D. The key personalities are the Apostle Paul, Timothy, Epaphroditus, Euodia, and Syntyche ( Philippians). Paul is known for his prison epistles ( letter written in jail) there are four and Paul had written Philippians last.

Our source of knowledge of the apostolic work of Paul comes first from the Book of Acts. The epistles written by Paul serve to further our knowledge of his mission. These letters were written to churches that he had founded or churches that were known to him. Luke’s account of Paul introduces us to the basic facts about this important biblical figure. A more complete understanding of Paul’s journeys can be gleaned from his letters. These epistles were written almost at the time they occurred and they comprise some of the earliest works contained in the New Testament.

Being an outsider in any faction of life is never an easy thing. When you are someone trying to fit into a life that isn’t yours it seems different and sometimes scary. People in the group look at you differently for thinking different than them but you also look at them differently for making their own thoughts. Seeing as the Christians in Philippi were persecuted for thinking different; they had a letter to help them try and deal with the persecution I know it doesn’t change things. Transitioning through the process of being an outsider isn’t an easy task, if only there was guide lines or letter to help people like there was in Philippians. The New Testament is made up of 27 books, 21 out of the 27 books are letters. When epistles were

Peter’s death foretold The gospel of John contains a passage which speaks directly to Peter’s martyrdom. Peter is called to die at the hands of persecution to glorify God. John 21:18-19 records that Jesus told Peter that he would have to suffer and die to glorify God. It records that Jesus said to Peter: Truly, truly, I say to you . . .

Peter was one of the first twelve Disciples of Christ and was born, along with his brother Andrew, in a small village called Bethsaida which is on the northern shore of Galilee, Israel. Both Peter and his brother were fisherman by trade, most likely because of their father Jonah, who was also a fisherman. The two brothers were both followers of John the Baptist’s ministry, how exactly they came to follow John the Baptist is unknown, however it is speculated it was via their travels transporting fish from Galilee to Jerusalem. Peter’s original name from birth was “Shimon” or “Simeon”, which when translated in English is “Simon”. It wasn’t until he had an encounter with Jesus of

In this letter Apostle Paul showed how great his love was for the church of Philippi, showing his gratitude for their financial support to further the work of the ministry and to express his concern about their spiritual walk. His only thought was about advancing the cause of Christ and building the Philippians’ faith to continue their mission in spite of the persecution they were facing. Within their church many of the people were at odds and some were trying to hinder the spread of the Gospel. Because of this, Paul encourages the church of Philippi to "stand fast, be of the same mind, rejoice in the Lord always but by prayer let your request be made known and the peace of God shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus" (4:1-7).