Welcome back to another episode of Five Minutes in Church History on this episode.

We are finishing our world tour of great cities.

We've been in cities this month.

We started with Cambridge, then we went to that ancient port city of Ephesus, and then

we went to the eternal city, as it is called Rome.

And now we are moving to the Holy City, and that of course is Jerusalem.

Jerusalem is hands down the capital city of biblical times.

It is the most important city in the story of the Old Testament, and it is clearly the

most important city in the New Testament.

But after biblical times, Jerusalem continues to have a history.

Let's move into the church history of Jerusalem and look at, of course, five things while

we're at it.

But first, I'm going to go ahead and dip back into biblical history and just mention

Acts chapter 15 because it's an important moment.

We speak of the ecumenical councils in church history, but the very first church council

was held in Jerusalem, and you can read all about it in Acts chapter 15.

So the first event, that church council there in Acts 15, in Jerusalem.

But you know Jerusalem is destroyed in 70 AD by the Romans, and so from 70 AD to 325,

as far as the Christian presence in Jerusalem goes, it is a time of decline and a period

of neglect.

This changes with Constantine.

We mentioned Constantine and especially his mom, Helen, in our last episode, but Helen

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