Theological Crisis in the Early church
A Christian couple both believed that because they loved each other and they loved the Lord, they were going to live in peace and never have a disagreement or an argument. And they soon discovered, it didn’t work that way! The longer they were married, the more they disagreed and the more they argued. The wife was really disturbed; she didn’t believe in divorce. So, finally one day she said to her husband, “Honey, let’s just pray to the Lord that He will take one of us home and then I’ll go live with my mother!” The birth of the church at Antioch, followed by the first missionary journey, brought many Gentiles into the household of faith. After evangelizing, discipling and enfolding believers into reproducing churches during Paul’s first missionary journey, they returned to Antioch to celebrate what God had done over the past year. Acts 14:27 says “and when they arrived and gathered the church together, they declared all that God had done with them and how He had opened a door of ...