Christian humility is not an affirmation of abuse or low self-esteem. It is not a retreat from the world’s suffering and pain or a shrinking back from all expressions of power. To the contrary, Christian humility begins with a positive assertion: We are children of God, made in God’s images, created for Shalom. As God’s own creation we have an inherent dignity and status that cannot be taken away by [...]
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Therefore make every effort to come together more frequently to give thanks and glory to God. For when you meet together frequently, the powers of Satan are overthrown and his destructiveness is nullified by the unanimity of your faith. There is nothing better than peace, by which all warfare among those in heaven and those on earth is abolished. Ignatius of Antioch, to the Church at Ephesus (Ign., Eph. xiii)
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The persecutors and executioners would press for them to convert or face death. Probably 99% of the time, a recantation or conversion garnered them freedom.Then you have quite the dilemma that I have to work through almost on a daily basis in my studies on Christian martyrdom and persecution. What do you do with the lapsi?
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His evil and heresy was nothing more than his faith and convictions that one must believe and baptized. In the poetic style of many of the persecutors of the faith over the centuries, death for the re-baptizer was via his third baptism.
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