Church History for Emmanuel

1. 500-1300

2. Bell work
• Review the 0-500 Recap Sheet
• Which 2-3 lessons stick out to you the most? Why?
• How are the applicable in today’s world? Explain

3. Conference
Reflection
Take out a sheet of paper
What do you remember the
most about the Summit virtual
conference? (1 paragraph)
What are you going to do your
artifact on?

4. 500-1300 – Memory
Verse
Mark 10:44-45
• Whoever wants to be first must
be slave of all. 45 For even the
Son of Man did not come to be
served, but to serve, and to
give his life as a ransom for
many.”

5. Reminders
No food; only
water
Stay in
assigned seats
Masks up
Cell phones in
slot
No high-risk
jokes
Respect the
Speaker
Join the
experience

6. 500-1300 – Significant Political Events

7. 500-1300 –
Significant
Political
Events
WEST – Feudal System & the Corruption of Leaders
• No central government
• Landowners (Lords) set up manors (plantations)
• To protect manors, knights were hired
• Peasants did not possess land; they became
vassals. They exchanged work for food,
protection, and shelter.
• Lords also PAID for priests (problems ?)
• MARK 6:14-29

8. 500-1300 –
Significant
Political
Events
EAST – The Emergence of Islam
• Mohammad grew up in Mecca
• In 610, Mohammad claimed to have been visited by
the angel Gabriel (visions over 23 years)
• He spoke fiercely against idolatry.
• Terms
• Muslim means “those who submit to Allah”
• Islam = Submission
• After Mohammad’s death, Muslims conquered
Arabia, Syria, North Africa, and even
Jerusalem. They also attacked Europe, conquering
Portugal and Spain.

10. Debates that relate to 500-1300?
• Is Islam a peaceful religion?
• Does Catholic teaching lead to salvation?
• Hell yes? Or Hell no?
• Is it okay to paint pictures of Jesus?
• Does the color of Jesus matter?
• Is it wrong to own to much?

11. Brain Break
Heads up/Seven up

13. 500-1300 AD – Significant Political Events
Smashers and Kissers
• For years, Eastern Christians used icons of Jesus to enhance
their worship.
• When does an ICON become an IDOL?
• Eastern Christians were called idolaters by Muslim and other
Christians
• In 725 AD, a volcano erupted in Constantinople (East)
• Emperor acted against the “Icon-Kissers”
• Grandest Icon – Picture of Christ above a Palace
• Emperor sent soldiers to destroy it
• Mob of women with pots and pans stopped the soldiers
• In 787 AD, more than 350 bishops met
• Don’t smash … and do not idolize icons

14. Should Christians Draw
Images of God?

15. 500-1300 AD – Significant Political
Events
Forced Christianity
• In the Middle Ages, Franks became the top dogs
• King Pepin III (754) handed most of the empire over to the
Roman Catholic Church
• King Charles, son of Pepin, forced tribes to be baptized or
DIE.
• 90% became baptized
• One German tribe said no; Charles ordered his army to
slash off 4500 heads in one day.
DOES IT WORK TO FORCE CHRISTIANITY ON OTHERS?
STORIES?

16. 500-1300 AD – Significant
Political Events
The Eastern and Western church had
quarreled for centuries.
- The western church (Roman Catholic)
believed that the Pope has authority over all
Christians. The eastern church (Eastern
Orthodox) disagreed.
- The two also fought over communion, icons,
marriage, and creeds.
- In 1054 AD, the two split.

17. 500-1300 AD – Significant Political Events
Crusades
- Many medieval Christians believed they could get closer to God by going on
pilgrimages.
- The supreme pilgrimage was to Jerusalem, the holy land.
- Muslims forced Christians to pay tariffs to use roads to get to the holy land.
- Pope Urban II – “Your Eastern brothers have asked for your help! Turks and Arabs have
conquered their territories. I – or, rather, the Lord! – beg you … destroy that vile race
from their land!”
- RESPONSE – “GOD WILLS IT”
- Peter the Hermit (unbathed) gathered 20,000 Western Christians to fight the Muslims.
- These Western Christians robbed many Eastern Christians on their way to Jerusalem
(further separated the Easter and Western church)

18. 500-1300 AD – Significant Political Events
Crusades
- Peter the Hermit was the only survivor of the first battle.
- He joined more Christians for the second crusade. In 1099, the crusaders took
Jerusalem.
- Newborn babies were thrown against walls
- Jew were burned alive
- Muslims eventually retook the land.
- WHAT GAVE THE SPARK TO THE CRUSADES?
- IS GOD MORE PRESENT IN JERUSALEM THAN OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD?
(John 4)

19. Brain Break
Basketball

20. Worldview Survey
• Login on to email
• Take the worldview survey

21. Debates
• Are the gifts of the spirit still around today?
• Speaking in tongues
• Prophecy
• Gifts of Healings
• Etc.
• Is it okay for your pastor to live a luxurious life?

22. 500-1300 AD – Significant Spiritual Events
• Monks
• Monks and Nuns started communities in pagan areas
• Their farming strategies were ahead of the time; unbelievers would ask about
crops; they would then lead to gospel conversations and salvation testimonies.
• Romans 12:11-12 Never be lazy, but work hard and serve the Lord
enthusiastically. Rejoice in our confident hope. Be patient in trouble, and
keep on praying.

23. 500-1300 AD – Significant Spiritual Events
• Hildegard of Bingen
• Musician and mystic
• Popes and emperors initially praised her
• At the age of five, she experienced mystic visions
• At the age of eight, she entered a religions community. She became the abbess (leader) of a
convent in Germany.
• In 1151, she published her visions in a book (Know the Way)
• When she was 80, certain bishops denounced her works.
• In 1400, the Catholic church declared her to be a saint.

24. Bell Work
• Reminder
• Sit down
• STAY AT YOUR DESK; MASK UP
• Open your Bible to 1 Timothy
6; read verses 2-10
• Summarize the text in 3-5
sentences

25. 500-1300 AD – Significant Spiritual Events
• Mendicant
• By 1100s, Barbarians were no longer around.
• Mendicants traveled the country preaching; survived off donations.
• In 1173, Waldo saw a play about a nobleman who gave away his wealth. He was impacted.
He gave his life to Christ; he also funded a French translation of the Bible. Then, he became a
mendicant.
• Waldo studied the Bible, but he became disturbed became he couldn’t find teachings on:
• Purgatory
• Pope’s supreme authority
• His followers, known as the “Poor Folk”, preached throughout Europe.
• They were eventually condemned by the Pope. Many poor folks were killed by the crusaders.

26. 500-1300 AD – Significant Spiritual Events
• Mendicant
• The Naked Bishop
• Francis of Assisi was a knight in Italy. On his way to a battle, he had a dream of the crucified Christ.
• He returned home with joy.
• “I have been married. I have married Lady Poverty!”
• He kissed lepers and sold his father’s possessions.
• His father took him to the local bishop.
• He took off all his clothes in front of the Bishop.
• “Grant me Jesus … that I may never own under heaven anything of my own.”
• Francis started a movement. His “friars” (brothers) could only own two brown tunics. (Franciscan).

27. 1 Timothy 6:2-10
• These are the things you are to teach and insist on. 3 If anyone teaches
otherwise and does not agree to the sound instruction of our Lord Jesus
Christ and to godly teaching, 4 they are conceited and understand nothing.
They have an unhealthy interest in controversies and quarrels about
words that result in envy, strife, malicious talk, evil suspicions 5 and
constant friction between people of corrupt mind, who have been robbed
of the truth and who think that godliness is a means to financial gain.
• 6 But godliness with contentment is great gain. 7 For we brought nothing
into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. 8 But if we have food and
clothing, we will be content with that. 9 Those who want to get rich fall into
temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that
plunge people into ruin and destruction. 10 For the love of money is a root
of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the
faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.

28. 500-1300 AD – Significant Spiritual Events
From “Dumb Ox” to “Angelic Doc”
• Biography of Thomas Aquinas
• At the age of 20, Thomas wanted to be a Dominicans – mendicant monk
• Parents disagreed
• They had brothers kidnap him. They locked him in a room with a prostitute all
night. Thomas passed the test.
• Thomas escaped the family castle and went to the University of Paris
• College peers called him the “dumb ox” (quiet, clumsy, and overweight)
• Thomas was brilliant. He eventually wrote Summa Theologica (summation of
theology) – over 4000 pages. He then was called the angelic doc.
• End of life – After attending a worship service, Thomas wrote, “All that I have
written seems to me nothing but straw, compared to what I have seen and what
has been revealed to me.”

29. BRAIN BREAK

30. Rap or Skit – Exit Pass
4-5 Act Skit 5-6 Line Rap
Summarize 1-2
things that you
learned today.