The first seventy years of the church, from its genesis on the day of Pentecost, through to the end of the NT at the close of the first century. How did the church spread? How did it function? Taught in the Fall of 2016 by Bernard Bell
Bernard Bell
Mondays, 7:00-9:00 pm
Sept. 19 – Dec. 5, 2016; Jan. 9-23, 2017
no class Oct 10 (Bernard gone)
Fellowship Hall
| Week | Date | Topic | Handouts | Audio |
| 1 | 9/19 | Pentecost: The Birth of the Church | 01-pentecost | mp3 (52.4 MB, 1:49:50) |
| 2 | 9/26 | The Jerusalem Church | 02-jerusalem | mp3 (45.8 MB, 1:38:33) |
| 3 | 10/03 | Expansion from Jerusalem | 03-expansion | mp3 (36.5 MB, 1:19:47) |
| – | 10/10 | no class | ||
| 4 | 10/17 | Paul’s Early Years | 04-paul | mp3 (36.4 MB, 1:18:43) |
| 5 | 10/24 | Paul’s First Journey | 05-firstjourney | mp3 (36.3 MB, 1:18:23) |
| 6 | 10/31 | Law & The Church | 05a-Law | mp3 (39.5 MB, 1:24:54) |
| 7 | 11/07 | Paul’s Second Journey | 06a-secondjourney | mp3 (51 MB, 1:51:35) |
| 8 | 11/14 | Paul’s Third Journey | 06b-thirdjourney | mp3 (18.8 MB, 40:24) first half not recorded |
| 9 | 11/21 | Paul’s Arrest & Trials | 07-arrest | mp3 (51.6 MB, 1:50:46) |
| 10 | 11/28 | Paul’s Later Life | mp3 (21.6 MB, 46:55) first half not recorded |
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| 11 | 12/05 | The Fall of Jerusalem | mp3 (43.3 MB, 1:33:17) | |
| 12 | 1/09 | The Gospels | ||
| 13 | 1/16 | Persecution by Rome | not recorded | |
| 14 | 1/23 | Parting of the Ways |