For God's Sake | Santa Rosa Press Gazette

For God's Sake | Santa Rosa Press Gazette

The label “Christian” is very broadly used to refer to those claiming to follow Jesus Christ, but it was not always so. Early in the first century, Jewish disciples were called followers of “the Way.” In Acts 9, Saul, a zealous persecutor of Christ’s disciples, “went to the high priest and asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any belonging to the Way, men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.” “The…