Things Everyone Should Know

During the next week or so I am planning on writing in this space concerning 5-10 church history facts that everyone should know.

In our world, and even within our church, there is a great need for more basic awareness of facts in the following areas:

1. Bible Content
2. The Creeds of the Church
3. Church History
4. Practical Christianity

We are attempting to address these needs by preparing clear teaching materials in each of these four areas. You will be hearing more about those efforts in the weeks ahead. For the coming week it seems very timely to note some basics of church history that you and I need to know.

Someone sent me this quote by CS Lewis yesterday:
"I do not wish to reduce the skeptical element in your minds. I am only suggesting that it need not be reserved exclusively for the New Testament and the Creeds. Try doubting something else."

By the way, as an illustration of the point that Lewis referred to in the quote above, last night I saw the last few minutes of a "scientific" TV program making amazing assertions regarding ancient human behavior and human origins based on chimps using tools to have a snack on some living ants.

I actually enjoy learning about animals using tools. As an aside, they had an amazing shot of some birds fishing with bait, catching a fish, and then swallowing the prey whole! I digress.

Back to the interesting pictures of chimps eating ants. Does this really prove anything about the behavior of our ancesters? Will anyone be willing to join me here in appreciating new data on animal behavior, yet with at least a little bit of Lewisian skepticism for how this proves "facts" about evolution?