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Radical discipleship, pacifism, and the church as a distinct counter-cultural community.
Key question: “How does this text call the community of faith to live as a distinct, counter-cultural witness to the Kingdom?”
24,021 sermon illustrations through the Anabaptist lens
1/1 (1788): The first edition of The Times of London, previously The Daily Universal Register, is published.
9/2 (1792): During what became known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.
11/22 (1943): Lebanon gains independence from France, nearly two years after it was first announced by the Free French government.
7/14 (1865): The first ascent of the Matterhorn is completed by Edward Whymper and his party, four of whom die on the descent.
9/2 (2010): Israel-Palestinian conflict: the 2010 Israeli-Palestinian peace talks are launched by the United States.
5/1 (1925): The All-China Federation of Trade Unions is officially founded. Today it is the largest trade union in the world, with 134 million members.