A Reading of the Didache

To think that this work was rediscovered in 1873, lost since at least the 3rd century. Thank you for your work.

Seeing how the early church operated helped save my faith in Christ despite seeing how things today sometimes go in churches. The Didache is amazing. Thanks for reading it.

Thank you for this reading and the ministry you are doing. May God bless your service in Him.

08/26/2022 - Wonderful Stuff. Church History is timeless when it comes to the Truth. God Bless. Amen.

I wish I had known about the earlier in life. But God's timing is perfect. Kyrie eleison me 🙏

Thank you. This is wonderful.

Thank you for this. I love the way it starts with the dichotomy of life and death. Somewhere along the line, Christianity became about the dichotomy of heaven and hell. But the Didache says that those who are made to stumble will perish not go to hell. This is the great truth that has largely been lost and it changes everything about our understanding of God and our lives. We either remain in faith, which the Didache clearly indicates is doing the commandments of God as they are listed in this book and revealed in scripture, or not taking on the yoke of Christ. In the first case, we escape the curse of death that befalls the unrepentant sinner, or in the second case, we experience the consequence of the decree by God to Adam, and later Moses to the Israelites, that if you sin you shall die. This, at bottom, is the challenge of our lives. Believing and by the grace of God doing the will of God or living according to anything else, such as our own notions or those of anyone else.

After listening to this for the first time there are two initial things that stand out to me. Firstly, the absence of salvation through repentance and faith in Christ, and secondly, that this early church document seems to be encouraging adult baptism by full immersion in a river.

Thank you for PDF link, so happy I have found your channel

The writings of Ignatius of Antioch and many other early Christians were called "forgeries" by John Calvin and other protestant leaders because even if they weren't justifying Roman Catholicism and Greek Orthodoxy they still make a very strong case for them. What we can get out of their writings is that through Baptism you become a member of the One True Church (which is the Body of Christ) where you participate of the supper of the Lord and receive the Body of Christ.

Instructions from the Torah, Gospels and Epistles all in one package? My curiosity is sparked.

This is great. This is good extra biblical stuff. I like how it mentions teachers and first fruits which are things rarely heard of due to modern church structure. Maybe teachers can be extended to include pastors/bishops? Thank you so much for posting this I am enjoying the new information and some of which I just somehow knew should be so but this affirms it. Please continue to post on this channel the work you do seems trustworthy which it is hard to come by. God bless you brother.

This is quite beautiful. I am a "protestant," but willing and eager to find and acknowledge truth where I find it. "All the Bible is true, but not all truth is in the Bible." As long as we test the spirits and all teaching against scripture, ascertaining as much as possible the historical context of the various early texts, and acknowledge that as great and marvelous the teachings of the post-apostolic and church fathers might be, they are not inspired scripture, much can be learned from them. It's fascinating to see how closely the Christians of the post-apostolic age held to the teachings of the apostles, but also informative to see how a little bit of "leaven" is already beginning to creep in. The "rules" concerning fasting and saying the Lord's Prayer three times a day, for instance, are not "necessary" and should be left up to the conscience of the Believer. To command them at certain times makes for the beginning of the observance of vain ritual. On the whole, though, I have found it to be very informative and a rich blessing to read!

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Never heard of this before today. Thank u

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Bless you for this

I really appreciate the Scripture references below! Didache 4.5 is a quotation of Sirach 4:31

I wonder what it means by "prophet" and if it would be the same as what appears in the NT. According to this document there were traveling prophets in the early church.