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• 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