over a council of the movement s leaders. the outcome will decide the future. will they remain a small jewish sect? or will christianity stand alone? paul comes to defend the salvation afforded by the death and resurrection of christ that also extends to gentiles, and he brings a saved christian to jerusalem in order to try to prove his point. here is my friend, a greek. paul brings with him titus, an uncircumcised greek, and he s a symbol of the gospel that he s preached. he s really bringing him there to say to everyone, so, what are you going to do about this? the only thing that counts is faith. when we read the acts of the apostles, it s quite clear that there s tension, and there s especially tension between james and paul. so if you were jesus brother
in order to be followers of the christ. his letters to new christian communities, the epistles, make up a third of the new testament. his teachings show how determined he is to reach out to gentiles. jesus said go and make disciples of all of the nations, and that meant not just the jew. if i were james and i d heard about paul and what paul was doing, i would be hugely frustrated. paul never met the human jesus. here was james, who was jesus brother, and this upstart was presuming to teach jesus message and go out amongst the j gentiles with this message? things got so bad in the relations between paul and james that ultimately they had a big conference in jerusalem to sort it out. around 50 a.d., 20 years after the execution of his brother jesus, james presides
in the wake of john s death, many of his followers turn to jesus as john s movement slowly declines. eclipsed by the new growing christian church whose message spreads across the world. john s disciples are still around long after the death of jesus. perhaps the biggest difference is that ultimately, in the early jesus movement, there s an appeal to gentiles and as soon as the gentiles are converting to this new movement, we get a much more successful global kind of mission. but john s voice can still be heard in a very direct way through one of jesus most famous teachings, the lord s prayer itself. father, hallowed be thy name. the words spoken by jesus were directly inspired by john. give us this day our daily bread. forgive us our sins for we ourselves forgive everyone who is indebted to us. lead us not into temptation, but
paul had been one of the pharisees who was against the jesus group, who changes sides as it were. and once he comes into the community he just comes in incredibly strongly and takes a huge role. paul has been traveling across the roman empire, preaching his own version of the jesus message for more than ten years. his manifesto has even reached non-jews or gentiles. the tricky issue of what do we do with gentiles was the hot button issue in earliest christianity. you have to remember all of the earliest followers of jesus were jews. all of them. so where do the gentiles fit into this? paul doesn t want the gentiles to convert to judaism in order to become christians,
their swift consequences? what s going on here? i think in these cases, now, this is legit, some of the accusations against mark halperin are pretty salacious and, you know, putting your erect gentiles on a woman s shoulder when you re in the office with her, she s your subordinate, i say that s not okay. jeffrey said that that s sexual assault. i agree. you know, the bill o reillys, the harvey weinsteins, i think that finally there is some vindication now there s some consequence for it because women for so long had to stay silent for fear of retribution which why the women didn t say anything at the time, they feared for their careers. this is a water shed moment, we re starting to see some consequence. i don t think we re completely over this problem for some of these people. i think now more women feel comfortable doing it and companies are taking action. that s a good thing. it s a sensitive summit bjec