[RnMomof7]

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[Gamecock]

**We fit into a long line of those from other ages and places who have tried to live to the glory of God.**

A few years ago we were taking a tour of Canterbury Cathedral.

Every afternoon the Cathedral goes quiet and The Apostles Creed is said by every visitor who chooses to do so.

When we finished reciting the creed our tour guide told us we have just joined 1,000 years of Christians who have recited the creed in that very spot. Puts things in perspective.

[CynicalBear]

In all too many circles “church” history has been re-written as it has been in secular history.

[sassy steel magnolia]

Thanks for posting this article! So appropriate to the season (winter to spring, Lent to Easter) and to the times we live in. Clinging to my Lord Jesus more and more these days. Grateful for Christian parents who wanted me to know church history. Praying for so many things and glad that God is in control!

[paladinan]

"To be deep in history is to cease to be Protestant."
-Blessed John Cardinal Henry Newman

[boatbums]

Those people of faith who came before us are examples to us and reminders of the grace of God and His working through mankind for not only their benefit but the benefit of those who would come after them. We learn patience through suffering and, if we are wise, we will learn it by seeing the patience of those who preceded us and how God was ALWAYS faithful.

Brothers and sisters, as an example of patience in the face of suffering, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. As you know, we count as blessed those who have persevered. You have heard of Job’s perseverance and have seen what the Lord finally brought about. The Lord is full of compassion and mercy. (James 5:9-11)

We are then to be examples to those who come after us as Titus chapter 5 exhorts:

You, however, must teach what is appropriate to sound doctrine. Teach the older men to be temperate, worthy of respect, self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love and in endurance.

Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good. Then they can urge the younger women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God.

Similarly, encourage the young men to be self-controlled. In everything set them an example by doing what is good. In your teaching show integrity, seriousness and soundness of speech that cannot be condemned, so that those who oppose you may be ashamed because they have nothing bad to say about us.

Teach slaves to be subject to their masters in everything, to try to please them, not to talk back to them, and not to steal from them, but to show that they can be fully trusted, so that in every way they will make the teaching about God our Savior attractive.

For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people. It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age, while we wait for the blessed hope—the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own, eager to do what is good.

These, then, are the things you should teach. Encourage and rebuke with all authority. Do not let anyone despise you.