Named as the 'Next Billy Graham,' T.D. Jakes certainly lives up to his reputation: he is one of today's most influential preachers in the world, with his television show being aired daily in more than one hundred countries worldwide, reaching millions of people with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. His church, "The Potter's House," a congregation of more than thirty thousand members, is among the ten largest protestant churches in the United States.
Historians such as Tacitus, Tertullian, Suetonius and many others recorded how Christianity faced unprecedented persecution after the death of Christ and the rise of Emperor Nero to power. All of the original apostles of Christ faced trials and were put to death either by the Roman Empire or local authority figures - but they all died for their faith.
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