It is well worth knowing more about church history that you currently know. You can never know enough about the history of the church – in history you'll see how great men and women of old worked out their salvation with fear and trembling and the results of this working many centuries later.
For example, the fact that we have a Bible in English at all is something of an extraordinary story of men who put their lives on the line (and often lost their lives) in the face of fierce opposition from the religious elite of the day.
Over the next few weeks I'm going to post a series of lectures by Daniel Wallace that explore something of the history of the English Bible from the 15th century to modern day.
In this first lecture Dr Wallace explains where it all started – who were the men that had the passion to put the word of God into the hands of the ordinary man, why did they think it was so important and what opposition did they face?
Click here to listen (sorry .wma only) or go here to download the Real Audio version
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