Today's Lesson

I had an evening class tonight. The name is The history of Christianity.


The first lesson is just an introduction. But it impressed me much.

First of all, according to the teacher said, the christians were crucified by The Emporer of Roman Empire:

Incident 1 in 64A.D.
In Rome, Romans massacred the christians in Rome by crucifying them on the cross and hung them on the road in Rome. Isn't it HORRIABLE???? (Surely, they are the first generation of martyr)

Incident 2
After a few years of the said incident, Romans killed christians in Jersulam and demolished the sanctuary in order to humiliate Jews and Christians

If I were the christian at that time. After 30 years of Jesus's death, I didn't know that I had courage enough to claim that I am Christian.

However, they were strong enough to face such kind of difficulties. It was grace on the other hand. The growth of church could not be stopped though.

Besides that, one of the point that should be marked down:

NO CHURCH IS PERFECT even in the era of apostles. The reason for Paul to leave so many scrolls is that there are so many problem in the church. For example, the norms and values of some church people were distorted. The books of Corinthians exposed such kind of problem (such as splitting among church people and heresies).

However, they were committed to face the problem and didn't show any sign to give in. That is the way we should learn. We shouldn't get used to the problems on one hand. But on the other hand, we should not be disappointed by such kind of problem.

The last point was really enlightened me. Apostle Peter was a self-centred person and ingored others' needs. Say, when he saw Jesus (John 21-22), he jumped into the sea and ignored the fish and his friends on the boat.

But Jesus knew Peter's weaknesses and so He asked Peter to feed the lambs 3 times. It is a way to polish Peter as Peter is not the right person to be sheperd. According to Jesus, being the sheperd, he should take care of each lamb and protect them well.

I found that God wants us to serve Him because of us. He wants us to come close to him and He wants us to be changed under His Grace. So don't give up if we get a chance to serve him. It is not only for the sake of others, on the contrary, it benefits us most.