What Happened to the Church in the Middle East? - Lucas Hilty - Ep. 225
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- For hundreds of years, there was a vibrant, growing church across the Middle East, spreading across places like Iraq and Syria, expanding as far as China, India, and beyond. These Christians have largely been lost to history; what happened to them? What events led to their disappearance, and what does that mean for us today? Lucas Hilty explains this largely forgotten disappearance of a once well-established church network. The tragedy of a region losing Christianity is a sober thing, and there is much for us to consider from this story.
Previous interview with Lucas on the early church in the East:
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The Patient Ferment of the Early Church:
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The Lost History of Christianity:
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I'm very impressed by your humbleness being totally commited to the Lord's lordship...lord bless you, i found peace and holiness in your statements
Thank you. We were delighted to have Lucas join us for this conversation.
I very much appreciate this foray into the Eastern story which is just as much a part of the Christian story as the Western story. Most of us are Western and so we have our direct links to and influences derived from the Western part of the story of Christianity. Consequently, we are familiar with the Western story. But ignorance of the Eastern story does not serve us well. Ignorance of the East deprives us of wisdom that we need in order to deal with our own contemporary issues. Wisdom demands that we be knowledgeable of both stories.
Thank you Chester. This is correct.
The best book I have read on these things is by Aaron Fochtman, Rightly Dividing That They be One- Great and important topic to give context to our modern world, by looking at what happened in the past- God bless your work
We fellowship with a local Mennonite congregation that started over 20 years ago, I don't know that they have brought a single person into their congregation officially. I think mostly because of their sacramental rules, rather than their lives in Jesus. What is the balance here?
Thank you for the book recommendation.
This guy is right that the close relationship with the Greco-Roman civilization has been a huge problem for true followers of Jesus. It didn't just start at the Nicene council. It started long before that. Justin the Martyr, origen, tertullian, Iraneus, eusibius, Clement, etc and many others mixed Greco-Roman pagan philosophy with the teachings of Paul and within a few years Jesus words meant nothing.
Thank you for this commentary, Benjamin.
@@AnabaptistPerspectives thank you for illuminating this important and often disregarded period in history.