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The dream that drew the founders together was a believers church in the Wesleyan tradition. It is the same dream that guides the Church of the Nazarene today. But how does that translate into a world where denominational lines don t seem to matter as much as they used to?
According to the Bible, Yeshua the Messiah (Jesus Christ) is a divine person who for the redemption of humanity became, for a brief moment in history, a human being. He has undoubtedly had more influence on the world's population than any other individual! Although information about Yeshua is abundant, beginning in antiquity, recent discoveries such as the Dead Sea Scrolls have provided a treasure-trove of new and exciting information. This book begins with an examination of the ancient and recent sources and produces a portrait of Yeshua within the context of the Second Temple Era and with new light shed on the person, teachings, extraordinary works, and associations of the Savior. The title of this work is "Yeshua: He Will Be Called A Nazarene." It has long been believed that Matthew 2:23 asserts only that Yeshua was a resident of the town of Nazareth, and therefore was known as a Nazarene. However, a careful study of the historical evidence and the Greek text of the New Testament reveals that the term "Nazarene" was a reference to a sect of Judaism. This sect known as the Nazarenes was a branch group of the Essenes of Dead Sea Scrolls fame! Yeshua's association with this group sheds new light on many of his beliefs, practices, and teachings! Those who followed Yeshua constituted a body of believers that came to be known as the Christian Church (Acts 11:26); but before they were graced with this Greek designation, they were known by other Hebrew names such as "The Way" (Acts 9:2) and, perhaps most significantly: "The Sect of the Nazarenes!" (Acts 24:5). After the destruction of Israel and Jerusalem along with its Temple in the year 70 of the common era, one sect of Judaism, the Pharisees, survived, prospered, and eventually developed into modern day Rabbinic Judaism. At the same time, the sect of the Nazarenes also survived and, in the wake of many changes, has evolved into the largely Gentile Christian Church. Though these two great world religions developed along parallel historical paths, they have traditionally been separated by hatred, prejudice, and ignorance. However, in recent times, individuals in these groups have drawn close to each other. Jewish people are coming to faith in Yeshua as their Messiah and Savior. The Messianic Jewish movement has grown in amazing, even miraculous ways in just a generation! At the same time, traditional Christians are discovering that Jesus was Jewish! Excitement over newly discovered historical information has led many Christians to explore the Jewish Roots of their own Christian faith! We are indeed living in exciting times! Yeshua's dream of creating from diverse races, cultures, and belief systems "one new man" (Ephesians 2:15) is once again becoming a reality!
A straightforward, basic introduction to church membership, written in everyday language for the new Christian or for the Christian who is new to the Church of the Nazarene.
Traces the Nazarene "art of the concept" from its Romantic inception to its academic transformation in the 1830s. Arguing that the Nazarenes, despite their revivalist agenda, were a quintessentially modern movement, the book provides a revisionist understanding of modernity in nineteenth-century art.
Over the course of his career, singer-songwriter Michael Card has explored the depths of Scripture by bringing together biblical study and the power of the imagination. Now he sheds light on the life of Jesus through forty lyrical reflections on the four Gospels, leading us to a place where Jesus becomes real and we can hear him with both hearts and minds.
Students of American history know of the law's critical role in systematizing a racial hierarchy in the United States. Showing that this history is best appreciated in a comparative perspective, The Long, Lingering Shadow looks at the parallel legal histories of race relations in the United States, Brazil, and Spanish America. Robert J. Cottrol takes the reader on a journey from the origins of New World slavery in colonial Latin America to current debates and litigation over affirmative action in Brazil and the United States, as well as contemporary struggles against racial discrimination and Afro-Latin invisibility in the Spanish-speaking nations of the hemisphere. Ranging across such topics as slavery, emancipation, scientific racism, immigration policies, racial classifications, and legal processes, Cottrol unravels a complex odyssey. By the eve of the Civil War, the U.S. slave system was rooted in a legal and cultural foundation of racial exclusion unmatched in the Western Hemisphere. That system's legacy was later echoed in Jim Crow, the practice of legally mandated segregation. Jim Crow in turn caused leading Latin Americans to regard their nations as models of racial equality because their laws did not mandate racial discrimination-- a belief that masked very real patterns of racism throughout the Americas. And yet, Cottrol says, if the United States has had a history of more-rigid racial exclusion, since the Second World War it has also had a more thorough civil rights revolution, with significant legal victories over racial discrimination. Cottrol explores this remarkable transformation and shows how it is now inspiring civil rights activists throughout the Americas.