Terika Zimmerman Essay 3 The story “Salvation,” by Langston Hughes discusses how young children were peer-pressured into being saved and giving their lives to Jesus. A thirteen year old boy named Langston Hughes was saved from sin, but was not really saved. The author states how his aunt's church was having a big revival with singing, praising,and shouting. Langston Hughes explained how the preacher wanted all the young children to come into the fold, so they can be saved and give themselves to Jesus. The writer explains how he wanted to see, speak, and feel Jesus come to him, but he never got that feeling from Jesus.
He stands on the hood of the car to preach like his grandfather once did. Hazel’s grandfather focused on Christianity while Hazel believes there is no Jesus. Hazel changes his location often to new parks to preach to the citizens passing by: “The next night, Haze parked the Essex in front of the Odean Theatre and climbed up on it and began to preach” (166). Here Hazel preaches about his new church, the Church Without Christ from the hood of his car. Learning from experience, Hazel gets to the point where he preaches the whole religion in only one
One man named, Jonathan Edwards, took it upon himself to preach to his congregation of sin and hell. In the hope of reviving their many other beliefs in Christianity, scholars refer to this time or even in early American history as “The Great Awakening”. One of Edwards’ sermons was called, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”. The sermon explains in detail of the wrath God has and what Hell has in store for the non-believers. It is very clear from this document religion was a very important part of people’s lives during colonial
During the Salem Witch Trials the accused people were forced to make a public confession and be killed in front of their family and friends. These Dark Times were very different, yet had both taken quite a large toll on their
Philip Yancey, author of “Exploring a Parallel Universe” feels offended when many acquaintances of his make negative comments about Evangelicals. Truthfully, there is enough evidence to respond to his offense. The sheer use of terror alone is an attribute to this stigma given to Evangelicals. I could turn on the TV. any Sunday and find many preachers screaming through the microphones.
While attending a church revival, his aunt also tried to take metaphors to explain him how is a salvation, she said that "when you were save you saw a light and something happened to you inside and Jesus comes into your life! You could see and hear and feel Jesus in your soul", and he believed that Jesus will physically come to save him. At the ceremony in a special meeting to "bring the young lambs into the fold", while all the other children went up to accept Jesus, Langston and another child named Westley remained seated. As the congregation prayed and the priest sang psalms, Westley decides to claim that he has so that the event can continue and went up to the altar, but Langston still sat waiting to see Jesus. The social pressure of the church becomes unbearable, helpless and alone, he struggles against the odds and finally, Langston went to the altar and accepted Jesus.
While only a small number of missionaries traveled from Azusa Street to minister overseas, it impacted many more who started other Pentecostal revival centers that surfaced as a result of hearing the news of the outpouring of the Spirit in Los Angeles. Seymour started a publication called the Apostolic Faith, which contained letters, sermons, and testimonies of what was going on at Azusa Street. This publication was read by many people all over the world and made it’s impact globally, as Christians in the far corners of the globe were reading the testimony of the Holy Spirit Baptism in Los Angeles, and then were themselves baptized and began speaking in tongues. With this combination of both missionaries and media, the ministry of Azusa street was able to reach across the ocean and impact the whole world. Without this, Pentecostalism would not have spread so rapidly and caught on as quickly as it did in the early 20th
➢ Almost all we know about Jesus (founder of Christianity) comes from the 4 Gospels ➢ Jesus endorsed old beliefs (One God, 10 Commandments, laws of Moses) and new beliefs (Jesus = messiah and son of God, bring eternal life to his believers) ➢ Emphasized loving God, loving one’s neighbour, loving one’s enemies ➢ Some Jews welcomed him, others rejected him (established religious leaders) ➢ Jesus was betrayed, arrested, condemned, and crucified Spread of Christianity ➢ The apostles and other disciples spread Christianity (Jesus as the Messiah) if was a sect within Judaism at first ➢ Eventually, Christianity spread beyond Judea and into other parts of the Roman Empire ➢ According to tradition, Peter established the church at Rome ➢ Paul did much to spread Christianity throughout the Empire and to the gentiles (non-Jews) Persecution ➢ Rome’s religious tolerance did not extend to Christianity, Perceived disloyalty, rumours of evil practices (cannibalism) ➢ Emperors such as Nero blamed problems in society on Christianity and persecuted them ➢ Thousands of Christians become martyrs ➢ Despite this, Christianity continued to grow • Message of love, equality, human dignity,
The people accused the Emperor Nero for the devastation claiming he set the fire for his own amusement. In order to deflect these accusations and placate the people, Nero laid blame for the fire on the Christians. The emperor ordered the arrest of a few members of the sect who, under torture, accused others until the entire Christian populace was implicated and became fair game for retribution. As many of the religious sect that could be found were rounded up and put to death in the most horrific manner for the amusement of the citizens of Rome. The ghastly way, in which the victims were put to death aroused sympathy among many Romans, although most felt their execution justified.
The church was cause for some of this to because people killed and went to war because they felt it was their duty to the church. These were some of the reasons that the Hundred Year War, all the Crusades, and also the Great Schism contributed to the downfall of the Middle Ages. First, the Crusades. They had a big part in the