A Compelling Testimony: Maintaining a Disciplined Walk, Christlike Character, and Godly Relationships as God's Servant

Ses s i on 6: Cu l t i vat i ng Our Commun i t y : The “Corporate” Di sc i p l i nes 267

b. Gentile Christianity (after the first century)

(1) Exempted from literal law of obedience (the council of Jerusalem, Acts 15)

(2) Destruction of the Temple in AD 70, prominence of Gentile form

(3) Christian calendar consisted of Christian holy-days shortly thereafter

(a) The Lord’s Day, Sunday

(b) Fasts on Wednesday and Friday (opposed to Jewish on Monday and Thursday)

(c) Borrowed from Judaism – Easter (Pascha, i.e., the Passover)

(d) Ascension Day, Epiphany, and Christmas

(e) Trinity Sunday (10th c., western)

c. Summary of Liturgical Theology

(1) Celebrates the course of the Revelation story

(2) Culminates in the life, death, exaltation, and return of Christ

(3) Orders time around special seasons of seeking the Lord together

6. The role of the sacraments

a. The Roman Catholic Church holds to seven sacraments.

(1) Baptism