The Church’s First 500 Years: Guarding the Treasure (Section 2)

This is the fourth part of The True Treasure Last time we saw that the early Church clung tightly to the Gospel treasure even when she was persecuted for it. Today, we consider how the Church held on to the treasure of the Gospel by growing in her understanding of the truth. Although it is true that the Church possessed the complete Gospel at the time that Jesus ascended, she did not fully grasp it in all its riches. Therefore, her understanding of it needed to be strengthened. Just as mined...