#1 The Christian Church began on Sunday (54 views) Subscribe   
   From:  David (DavidABrown)    10/14/2002 2:11 pm  
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#1 The Christian Church began on Sunday the Resurrection Day of Jesus, by Jesus breathing, giving Life - His Spirit into each individual disciple who follows Him.

The first area of Christian agreement can be that the Christian Church obviously does exist and that it has continually existed since it was first created and that the creation of the Christian Church is on the Sunday the day of the Resurrection of Jesus, as Jesus is the Founder and head of His Church. In fact the Christian Church meets every Sunday in commemoration of the Resurrection of Jesus and the Start of His Church.

Lets look at this:

The Christian Church is a unique gathering of people whos sins have been paid in full by Jesus on the cross. The word Church means "out  gathering" those that are taken out of the sinful world and gathered together into the sinless image of Jesus by receiving the Spirit of God and by receiving the Spirit of God passing from death in sin to Life in Jesus.

The Church did not exist during the Old Testament times. In other words, Noah, Abraham, King David, Solomon, and even John the Baptist, although each was in a relationship with God, were not Christians, and for a very good reason, each of theses people lived and died Prior to the Cross of Jesus. Before the Cross of Jesus the remedy for Sin had not yet occurred and with sin a "Gathering of the Sinless (in Image)" was not available as Gods Spirit is not intimately available with Sin.

Once Jesus came into humanity in the Virgin Birth and then died on the cross as full payment for all of the sins of the world then on His "Resurrection Day" the Church age could then begin. The Church could not be gathered prior to the cross and without the resurrection there would not be the Living Leader.

The Church / Christians are Identified as the ones who have Received the Spirit of God and by receiving the Spirit of God are now in the Sinless Image of God our Father the Christian is now a Child of God. This event of Jesus giving the Spirit and the individuals each receiving the Spirit of God began on Sunday the very day of the Resurrection of Jesus.

John 20:19-23 Then the same day (Resurrection Day) at evening, being the first day of the week (Sunday), when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, "Peace be unto you." And when He had so said, He showed unto them His hands and His side. Then were the disciples glad, when they saw the Lord. Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me , even so send I you. And when He had said this , He breathed on them, and saith unto them, "Receive ye the Holy Ghost: (Become a Christian) Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.

Sometimes people think that the Church did not start until fifty days after the Resurrection of Jesus during a Feast called "Pentecost" Acts 2:1-4 but remember it is the Cross and the Resurrection of Jesus that paved the way for the Church and the individual receiving of the Holy Spirit of God, and not the waiting of Fifty days by the disciples that paved the way for the Church, besides there is a Feast of Pentecost every year but there is only one Cross and Resurrection of Jesus so there is not a fifty day gap between the Resurrection and the start of the Church, and the people in Acts 2:1-4 had already received the Holy Spirit back in John 20:19-23.

Since it is the Cross and Resurrection of Jesus and Only the Cross and Resurrection of Jesus that paved the way for the Christian Church the Christian Church has continued and will continue until Jesus receives His Christian Church unto Himself in Heaven where He is. In order for the Church to have started and stopped and started again would Require that the Holy Spirit would no longer be available and then Jesus would have to be re-Crucified and the Holy Spirit re-given, events that could never happen again and would never happen again as the one Crucifixion of Jesus is sufficient for ALL time.

True Christianity means a Relationship with God and a Relationship with God is as old as Creation so it can be said that Adam and Eve are the first Christians but then Sin separated mankind from God and therefore postponed Christianity until after the Redemption of mankind via the Cross and Resurrection of Jesus.

So we can readily "Agree to Agree" that The Christian Church began with Jesus, the Leader and Founder, giving His Spirit on the day of His Resurrection Sunday and that the Church has continued and will continue until Jesus Himself returns and Receives His Christian Church up into Heaven where He currently is.

God Bless you,

David



David A. Brown
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