text: "Jesus died a Jew."
  
  For Christians, however, Jesus rose from the dead; He was more than a great dead Jew, a dead Jewish "Teacher" or Rabbi who taught great things like dead Socrates did, whose grave could not hold out for long against disintegration, emptiness, mortality. Jesus later appeared to an assembly of followers in an Upper Room and elsewhere -- to proclaim the Kingdom of God which was at the heart and center of his ministry and preaching. His followers recruited others to proclaim the same message of faith, hope, love and forgiveness all over the globe. His followers didn't discount the notion of church, recruitment, location in order to proclaim his message, pass it on, live it out, bask in his living Presence at worship. Church is everywhere in New Testament Revelation, stirring among his followers. The Risen Jesus founded a church through them.