#33 The True Church, Part 3: According to History
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#33 The True Church, Part 3: According to History
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If Christ truly founded a Church, what happened to it after the apostles died? In Part 1, we defined the biblical blueprint: twelve scriptural marks of the True Church. In Part 2, we followed the logic wherever it led and saw that this Church must be visible, authoritative, unified, and sacramental. Now in Part 3, we test that conclusion against history. Turning to the earliest Christian witnesses, the Didache, First Epistle of Clement, and the letters of Ignatius of Antioch, we examine the first 100 years of Christianity to see what the Church actually looked like in the generation immediately following the apostles. This is the handoff moment. Before councils, before creeds, before a finalized canon, what did the earliest Christians believe about authority, unity, and the sacraments? And does that match what we see today?