Why Study Church History?

"History is more or less bunk," quipped Henry Ford in 1916 to a Chicago Tribune reporter--and barely a decade later went on to preserve America's industrial and inventive history at his Greenfield Village museum near Dearborn, Michigan. Ford's earlier view of history certainly would not be our own, nor is it a biblical one. The Bible is very plain that history, particularly the history of God's dealings with mankind, is knowable and should be known by the people of God. The Apostle Paul writes, "Now all these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come" (I Cor. 10:11).

Each 1st and 3rd Tuesday of the month at 7:30 PM we gather in the home of one of our members to enjoy dessert, discuss the week's reading in our textbook or hear an informal lecture with discussion covering some aspect of Church History since close of the Apostolic era. Think the problems in the church today are all new, never seen before? Then come study the the continuing works of Christ in his Church. For details and directions, you may contact our Pastor.