The Sixth Advantage of Learning Church History
It's a common concern among many of us that the church is becoming too traditional. If so, what makes studying church history important? Isn't it time to embrace the 21st century and quit living in the 16th century?
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The church has always understood that, despite our worries, a forward-looking church is also a backward-looking church. Similarly, progressive, well-balanced Christians will know their church history.
The Bible attests to this. Christianity as it is presented in the Bible is unavoidably a historical religion. Christianity views time as linear rather than cyclical. In other words, there is a beginning, middle, and end to time. All of the Bible's major themes have their roots in this range of time. The historical events of the Creation, Fa...