THE LIFE OF THE EARLY CHRISTIAN IN COMPARISONWITH THE MODERN CHURCH
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1999-08-08
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Niger State College Of Education Minna
Abstract
This work of the colllparative study of the early Christians with the Christians
of today is borne out of the curiosity to discover why the life of the early
• Cl11 islians are far away different from ours today. It is a comlllon knowledge
that most of our Christians today have lost their Chrislían identity.
There is a lot of criticism about the type of life Christians are living which made
some people to ask "where those Christians of the early church exceptional,
illimitable being, living lives of perfection have ceased to exist, or is it that we
Christians of today with our weakened faith are really "sub normal?".
This project has therefore been able to see that it is better for us to look back
in the life of the early church and then turn away from our evil inclination and
live as a Christian, people talk of the life of the early church as an ideal life of a
Christian.
This proJect there is written under five distinct heading:
Chapter One: Deals with the introduction of the proJect.
Chapter Two:
Chapter Three:
Chapter Four:
Deals with the review of the related literature in order to
back the necessary claims as may be observed in the
process of the work.
Attempts what the early church said, when it was purely
Jewish church, when the church left Palestine, when the
Apostles died and what the church was able to achieve.
Handles the church of today and the effect of the church
on the people