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CHURCH
IN ROME
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Established:
AD 34 to 43
By
Pentecost believers (Acts 2:10)
Started
in and/or by scattered believers (Acts 11:19-21,24)
Paul
didn’t visit Rome until AD 61(Acts 28:14:31)
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Population:
1,000,000
Capital
of Roman Empire
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Size/Growth:
Believers Homes (Acts 28:4)
Ministered from hired house (Acts 28:30)
No hindrances (Acts 28:31)
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Outreach:
(Acts 2:10) “Pentecost-Rome”
(5:1) “Justified by faith”
(19:21) “I must see Rome”
(23:11) “Jesus: Thou must
bear witness to Rome”
(28:14-31) “Paul’s hired house
(Rom. 1:7) “To that be in Rome
(Rom.1:16) “Not ashamed”
(Rom. 16:3-15) “Greet the church in the house”
(I Tim.1:17)“Onesiphorus sought me out in Rome”
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Church Development:
(Acts 2:10) “Pentecost to Rome”
(Acts 11:19-21,24) “Scattered abroad upon
persecution”
(Acts 28-14-31) “Paul expounds on the kingdom of
God”
”(Acts 28:30-31) “Paul preaching kingdom of
God”
(Acts 28:31) “Paul ministering with all
confidence and no man forbidding him.”
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Letter to Rome:
(Rom.1:7) “To all in Rome”
Doctrinal & Practical
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Church
Characteristics:
Romans 16:3-14)… Priscilla & Aquilla “Church
in their house”
… Epaenetus “Well beloved & first fruits of Achaia”
… Mary “Who bestowed much labor on us”
… Andronicus & Junia “Kinsman, fellow prisoners, of note
among the apostles, in Christ before me”
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Amphlias “My beloved in the Lord”
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Urbane “Our helper in Christ”
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Stachys “My beloved”
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Apelles “Approved in Christ”
…Aristobulus
“household.”
…Herodion
“my kinsman”
…Narcissus
“Household”
…Tryphena
& Tryphosa “Who labor in the Lord”
…Persis
“Beloved which labored much in the Lord”
…Rufus
“Chosen in the Lord and his mother and mine”
…Asyncritus,
Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, and the
brethren which are with them”
…Philogus,
Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and
all the saints which are with them”
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