1. Messiah: A savior or someone who rescues another from harm.

2. Disciple: A person who follows the teachings of another.

3. Parable: A story that teaches a lesson using every day events.

4. Resurrection: Act of rising from the dead or coming back to life.

5. Apostle: One of the early Christian leaders who started new churches.

6. Salvation: Being delivered or saved from sin, destruction, or evil

7. Persecute: To treat someone badly.

8. Martyr: Someone who is willing to die instead of giving up their beliefs.

9. Hierarchy: A group of people with different levels of power or authority.

10. Clergy: Leaders of the church.

11. Laity: Regular church members.

12. Pope: Head of the Catholic Church and Bishop of Rome.

13. Gospel: One of the first four books of the New Testament: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

14, Icon: Picture or image of Jesus, Mary (the mother of Jesus), and the saints (Christian holy people).

15. Iconoclast: Someone who attacks traditional beliefs or institutions.

16. Excommunicate: To say that a person or group no longer belongs to the church.

17. Schism: To separate, to split.

18. Tithe: An offering to the church. equal to 10 percent of income.

19. Monastery: A place where men called monks live together in a religious community.

20. Missionary: Person who teaches religion to those who do not believe.

21. Zealots: Jews who believed they should fight the Romans to take back control of their kingdom.

22. Sermon on the Mount: A group of sayings in which Jesus made it clear that a person had to love and forgive from the heart and not just go through the motions of following religious laws.

23. Samaritan: A member of a group looked down upon by Jesus’ listeners.

24. Crucifixion: Punishment of being hung from a cross until dead

25. Trinity: Christian belief that the one God existed in the form of three persons.

26. Diaspora: the scattering of Jews to communities outside of Jerusalem.

27. Patriarchs: Name for the five leading archbishops of the early

Christian church.

28. Monotheism: Belief in one god.

29. Bible: Christian sacred writings.

30. Sacraments: Special ceremonies performed by some Christians. Baptism is an example.

31. Christianity: A religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus.