Day thirty-two, thirty-eight remaining. I haven't blogged for two weeks now. I have been working on reading and learning from S.M. Houghton's Sketches From Church History for our time in Vlad. Over halfway through. Houghton covers fourteen centuries in the first half of his book. So much to learn from twenty centuries of Christ's church...so many important characters from the apostles to the early church fathers to Augustine, Luther, Calvin, Tyndale, Huss, Zwingli, Knox, etc. How do you do a survey of twenty centuries of the history of Christ's church in twenty hours? I hope to highlight some of the saints in Russia who have played a role in the growth of the church there.
It is amazing the persecution God's saints endured for their faith in His name and Gospel. I am curious to learn of the isolation, hardship, and persecution that Russian believers may have endured in the last several decades. I am not ready to assume that just because Russians have more freedom that Russian believers are free from suffering for the sake of the name.
Basic goal now is to commit in the next 7-10 days to a scope and sequence structure for the history of the church - then I will switch to my course on Christology, or the study of the Lord Jesus Christ. Honestly I have as much joy and thrill to teach on church history as I do on Christ. After all, isn't history His Story?
More tomorrow on my approach to Christology....
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