The Importance of Knowing Church History (2)
Rev. Clayton Spronk argues for the importance of studying church history as both a divine requirement and a spiritually beneficial practice. The article demonstrates how knowledge of church history reveals God's sovereign work in preserving His church through figures like Athanasius, Augustine, Luther, and Calvin, and how it protects believers from doctrinal errors—drawing specific examples from the Afscheiding and PRC history.
Rev. Spronk is pastor of Faith Protestant Reformed Church in Jenison, Michigan. This is the edited text of the speech Rev. Spronk gave at the annual meeting of the RFPA on September 25, 2014. First article was in the November 15, 2014 issue, p. 89. We have to know church history because it is required by God (see the previous article). We also want to know church history because of the rich benefits the knowledge of this history affords us. Of the numerous benefits of knowing church history I...
Full article available on sb.rfpa.org
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