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    Why Study Church History?

    Jun 15, 2020 3 minutes
    —by Antonio Coppola

    Is history boring? Is it just stories of old dead men about whom no one cares? What about church history in particular? What difference can looking at the past possibly make for my faith in Christ? Why even bother? Here are four reasons why studying church history is very important:

    Today’s Church does not exist in a vacuum

    We’re not the first generation to read the Bible. For the past two-thousand years, Christians have wrestled with scripture. They’ve preached sermons, written commentaries, defended orthodoxy (right belief) against heresy (false teaching), and

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