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What ever happened to the apostles?. Let’s learn more about one of the apostle. Let’s learn more about one of the apostle. Judas/Jude = Greek of Judah “praise” See handouts. Map of the Apostles. Discussion Questions. Does your name have a special meaning? Mine does
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Let’s learn more about one of the apostle • Judas/Jude = Greek of Judah “praise” • See handouts
Discussion Questions • Does your name have a special meaning? • Mine does • Do you know someone who is really trying to live up to the meaning of his or her name? • Anyone named “Jesus” or children of presidents and athletes
Discussion Questions • What does it mean to you to be called a “Christian”? • … So for a whole year Barnabas and Saul met with the church and taught great numbers of people. The disciples were called Christians first at Antioch. (Acts 11:26)
Discussion Questions • What does it mean to you to be called a “Christian”? • … So for a whole year Barnabas and Saul met with the church and taught great numbers of people. The disciples were called Christians first at Antioch. (Acts 11:26) • We are people who belong to Christ, we are defined by Christ
Discussion Questions • Whom would you prefer as your own biographer? (Mother, father, husband, wife, friend, employer, stranger? What about God?) • God would be the best, he covers over all our faults because of his Son’s blood • Think of a single-sentence biography with which you would like to be remembered. • He was a faithful servant of God in the midst of God’s people.
Discussion Questions • Are there still people like Judas Thaddaeus in the Church today? • Judas Thaddaeus was a lot like James the Lesser, another unsung saint
Judas/Jude • Praise, Lord, for your apostles, / St. Simon and St. Jude. • One love, and hope, impelled them / To tread the way, renewed. • May we with zeal as earnest / The faith of Christ maintain, • Be bound in love together, / And life eternal Gain. • - CW 552 By All your Saints Still Striving