This is a great quote from James Casson's Tenet Talk on Sunday about Church History:

"The Church has had many ups and downs, great successes and great failings. Yet through it all there has been one constant. Christ is her builder. Two thousand years ago, Jesus Christ condescended to take on human flesh in order to live a perfect life and die a criminal’s death for His bride! With His own blood, he bought her and for her life he died. Church history is the unfolding story of the life of Christ’s bride, of whom we are part who have been saved by Him!

In addition to knowing Christ better, there are a couple of other good reasons for studying church history. One of them is for our instruction and encouragement. Did you know that the difficulties and problems we face today as Christians are rarely unique? The odds are the very issues we face today have been engaged by Christians of the past. To give you an example, if you’ve ever talked to a Mormon you know that they argue that Jesus was not fully God, and that he was just the best of creation. This is an argument that has been around since at least the Third Century, and reading a book like Athanasius’ On the Incarnation, which was written in response to that very issue, can instruct us on how to answer our Mormon friends; and even more than that we can be encouraged by God’s kind preservation of his church through that debate in the 4^th century, which we’ll see here in a couple of weeks." - James Casson

We are indebted to a number of incredible historians who take note of the circumstances of the past and remind us of them in the present. One such man is James Casson. Learn more about our Tenet Talks here, and join us Sunday for Church History if you want to know more of Christ's bride and how the Lord has been leading her for these past two thousand years!