do this in memory of me. and throughout all the christian communities, whether they were jewish christians or gentile christians, that partaking of the bread and the wine in his memory became the central focus of his worship. but that eucharist would have looked much different than the ritual we see today, as paul reveals in corinthians. but the lord s supper, as he describes it, is not a funny different sort of practice with tiny wee little wafers or bits of bread and a thimbleful and a sip of wine or something. it is something which is integrated into a normal meal. he talks about some people going away hungry and other people having too much, so it s integrated in a normal social sort of context.
describes it, is not a funny different sort of practice with tiny wee little wafers or bits of bread and a thimbleful and a sip of wine or something. it is something which is integrated into a normal meal. he talks about some people going away hungry and other people having too much, so it s integrated in a normal social sort of context. and while the new testament mentions the idea of a church, using the greek word ekklesia, early christians didn t worship in magnificent cathedrals. ekklesia simply means an assembly. early christians, early followers of jesus would have met in private homes. they might have met in public buildings. they began in a synagogue. they broke from a synagogue, and they met in houses.
it s a dangerous, tumultuous time in the roman empire. nowhere more so than in the province of judea on the far edge of the mediterranean. its capital, the holy city of jerusalem, is teeming with pilgrims for the springtime feast of passover. many of them looking for an earthly key, a messiah who will deliver them from the yoke of roman oppression. into this powder keg walks jesus of nazareth. his protests against the romans make him a popular hero. to some, he is the messiah. but to the romans, he s political trouble, so they crucify him. the followers of jesus believed that he has risen from the dead and will soon usher in the kingdom of heaven, but when and how will this new faith survive after jesus? today, more than 2 billion people call themselves christians, people who believe jesus rose from the dead. but perhaps it s a miracle that christianity did not disappear when the romans crucified jesus on a lonely hill outside jerusalem almost 2,000 years ago. this region
jerusalem, is teeming with pilgrims for the springtime feast of passover. many of them looking for an earthly key, a messiah who will deliver them from the yoke of roman oppression. into this powder keg walks jesus of nazareth. his protests against the romans make him a popular hero. to some, he is the messiah. but to the romans, he s political trouble, so they crucify him. the followers of jesus believed that he has risen from the dead and will soon usher in the kingdom of heaven, but when and how will this new faith survive after jesus? today, more than 2 billion people call themselves christians, people who believe jesus rose from the dead. but perhaps it s a miracle that christianity did not disappear when the romans crucified jesus on a lonely hill outside jerusalem almost 2,000 years ago. this region, jerusalem and judea, represented an important land bridge between syria and egypt. so throughout history, this has been a critical place. jerusalem had been the holy
here is their teacher. here is one student being told that the earth goes around the sun. here he is being told that there are 300 billion as far as the galaxy. here he is being told that one thimble-full of a neutron star would weigh 100 million tons. here he is getting in mit. here he is graduating magna couple lady. here is the boy receiving the nobel prize. here he is thinking back over his life how everything he has done, everything he is he owes to that first science teacher who told him about the earth and how it goes around the sun. but the boy who is now an old man would be wrong. he is forgetting something, something woe never think of, something that predicate the nobel prize and the solar kills are and the physics and mit and that excitement about a thimbleful of neutron star, boy is the forgetting the desks. this is the earth again. this is africa. this is a country in africa called malawi this is a school. this is a classroom. there are no desks.