The early chapters, set in Jerusalem, discuss Jesus ' Resurrection and Great Commission, his Ascension with a prophecy to return, the start of the Twelve Apostles ' ministry, and the Day of Pentecost.

* Great Commission ( 1: 4 – 8 )

One of the central themes of Acts, indeed of the New Testament ( see also Great Commission ) is the universality of Christianity — the idea that Jesus's teachings were for all humanity — Jews and Gentiles alike.

In the same year, changes to the British Transport Commission, including the privatisation of road haulage, ended the coordination of transport in Great Britain.

Following a Royal Commission report in 1906, work began on a new prayer book, work that was to take twenty years due in part to the demands of the Great War ( 1914 – 18 ) and in part to the constitution of the Church Assembly in 1920 which " perhaps not unnaturally wished to do the work all over again for itself.

Steps towards reconciliation on a global level were taken in 1965 by the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches mutually revoking the excommunications that marked their Great Schism in 1054 ; the Anglican Roman Catholic International Commission ( ARCIC ) working towards full communion between those churches since 1970 ; and the Lutheran and Roman Catholic churches signing The Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification in 1999 to address conflicts at the root of the Protestant Reformation.

Christian attitudes to Judaism and to the Jewish people developed from the early years of Christianity, the persecution of Christians in the New Testament, and persisted over the ensuing centuries, driven by numerous factors including theological differences, competition between Church and Synagogue, the Christian drive for converts decreed by the Great Commission, misunderstanding of Jewish beliefs and practices, and a perceived Jewish hostility toward Christians.

Furthermore, as early Christians ( following the Great Commission ) had to explain their concepts to a new audience which

In contrast, most Christian denominations actively seek converts, following the Great Commission, and conversion to Christianity is generally a declaration of faith ( although some denominations view it specifically as adoption into a community of Christ, and orthodox Christian tradition views it as being a literal joining together of the members of Christ's body ).

" He gives the Great Commission: " Therefore go and make disciples of all the nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you ;" Jesus will be with them " to the very end of the age.

* Great Commission

* Great Commission

In his " Great Commission ", the resurrected Jesus commanded that his teachings be spread to all the world.

However, the Great Commission is specifically directed at " all nations ," and an early difficulty arose concerning the matter of Gentile ( non-Jewish ) converts as to whether they had to " become Jewish " ( usually referring to circumcision and adherence to dietary law ), as part of becoming Christian.

In Great Britain, the Whitley Commission, a subcommittee of the Reconstruction Commission, recommended in its July 1918 Final Report that " industrial councils " be established throughout the world.

" The Illegality of the Forced Treaties Leading to Japan's Annexation of the Great Han Empire ", In the Korean National Commission for UNESCO, Vol.

They also point to the two ( out of five ) Great Commission passages that speak of baptism.

The Great Commission passage speaks of believing: " He who believes and is baptized will be saved ; but he who does not believe will be condemned " ( verse 16, NKJV ).

International Organization for Standardization, which is a network of the national standards institutes of countries and Forestry Commission, which is a non-ministerial government department responsible for forestry in Great Britain can be a form of Quango.

The only possible exceptions to this are the Great Commission Matthew 28: 16-20, 2 Corinthians 13: 14, and the Comma Johanneum, which many regard as a spurious text passage in First John ( 1 John 5: 7 ) known primarily from the King James Version and some versions of the Textus Receptus but not included in modern critical texts ..

Over the next few decades his followers, following the Great Commission, including the apostle Paul, carried his message throughout the Greek-speaking regions of Asia Minor, eventually introducing it to Rome itself.

The Great Lakes Commission is a United States interstate agency established in 1955 through the Great Lakes Compact, in order to " promote the orderly, integrated and comprehensive development, use and conservation of the water resources of the Great Lakes Basin ," which includes the Saint Lawrence River.

The Great Assembly is credited with establishing numerous features of contemporary traditional Judaism in something like their present form, including Torah reading, the Amidah, and establishing the feast of Purim.

The instrument is also played in Great Britain ( Wales, East Anglia, Northumbria ) and the U. S., where its traditional use in folk music saw a notable revival in the late 20th Century.

The number of orchards had been reduced to such a level that the destruction of trees in the Great Storm of 1987 demonstrated how close the Islands had come to losing many of its traditional cider apple varieties.

In Oxford, it is traditional for May Morning revellers to gather below the Great Tower of Magdalen College at 6: 00 am to listen to the college choir sing traditional madrigals as a conclusion to the previous night's celebrations.

The Great Mosque of Xi ' an, whose current building dates from the 18th century, does not replicate many of the features often associated with traditional mosques.

The repertoire included many bebop mainstays, standards from the Great American Songbook and the pre-bop era, and some traditional tunes.

Most traditional Wiccans worship the god and goddess, and a central part of Wiccan liturgy involves the Great Rite ; an act of actual or symbolic ritual sexual intercourse between the two deities.

A traditional estimate of the historian Calamy is that around 2, 400 Puritan clergy left the Church, in the " Great Ejection " of 1662.

Bloom, a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, argued for a traditional Great Books-based liberal education in his lengthy essay The Closing of the American Mind.

The traditional story is that Ptolemy II sponsored the translation for use by the many Alexandrian Jews who were fluent in Koine Greek ( the lingua franca of the Eastern Mediterranean from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BCE, until the development of Byzantine Greek around 600 CE ), but not in Hebrew.

Many of his songs are about his experiences in the Dust Bowl era during the Great Depression when Guthrie traveled with migrant workers from Oklahoma to California and learned their traditional folk and blues songs, earning him the nickname the " Dust Bowl Troubadour.

Several traditional counties, including Essex, Sussex and Kent, predate the unification of England by Alfred the Great, and originally existed as independent kingdoms.

The sport, a form of football derived from traditional Irish ball games, is mainly played in the country of Ireland, although associations exist in other areas such as Great Britain and North America.

Bob Hallett of the Canadian folk rock group Great Big Sea is also a renowned performer of the tin whistle, playing it in arrangements of both traditional and original material.

It was further exacerbated by Vergennes ' prodding Louis XVI to get involved in Great Britain's war with its North American colonies, due to France's traditional rivalry with Great Britain.

The account of the labors of Saints Cyril and Methodius among the Slavic peoples is also very interesting, and to Nestor we owe the tale of the summary way in which Vladimir the Great suppressed the worship of Perun and other traditional gods at Kiev.

The United States ' entry into the Great War marked the abandonment of the traditional American policy of isolation and independence of world politics.

The region has a wide range of small-scale holiday resorts ranging from the traditional coastal towns of Felixstowe and Lowestoft in Suffolk and Great Yarmouth in Norfolk to small fishing villages like Aldeburgh and Southwold in Suffolk.

Austria was supported by Great Britain and the Dutch Republic, the traditional enemies of France, as well as the Kingdom of Sardinia and Saxony.

Known as the " Great Race ", the Bathurst 1000 is a traditional 1000 km test of drivers, teams and machines held at the Mount Panorama Circuit in Bathurst, New South Wales.

The Second Great Awakening was challenging women's traditional roles in religion.

Great Lakes Twa | Twa women with traditional pottery

Because the sacrifice of Jesus through his crucifixion is commemorated on this day, the Divine Liturgy ( the sacrifice of bread and wine ) is never celebrated on Great Friday, except when this day coincides with the Great Feast of the Annunciation, which falls on the fixed date of March 25 ( for those churches which follow the traditional Julian Calendar, March 25 currently falls on April 7 of the modern Gregorian Calendar ).