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Today's Early Church Wisdom
“I shall not hesitate also to put into ordered form for you, along with the interpretations, everything I learned carefully in the past from the elders and noted down carefully, for the truth of which I vouch. For unlike most people, I took no pleasure in those who told many different stories, but only in those who taught the truth. Nor did I take pleasure in those who reported their memory of someone else’s commandments, but only in those who reported their memory of the commandments given by the Lord to the faith and proceeding from the Truth itself. And if by chance anyone who had been in attendance on the elders arrived, I made enquiries about the words of the elders—what Andrew or Peter had said, or Philip or Thomas or James or John or Matthew or any other of the Lord’s disciples, and whatever Aristion and John the Elder, the Lord’s disciples, were saying. For I did not think that information from the books would profit me as much as information from a living and surviving voice.
~ Papias of Hierapolis (c. 60–130 AD) From the Preface to his lost ‘Expositions of the Sayings of the Lord’
This week's Psalm is Psalm 31 'My Rock, My Shield, My Song'

Life In The Church

Seeking Jesus together

Take a moment to consider how you live your life in the church. Whether or not you consider yourself a leader, consider your interactions with other believers. Do you ever stop to seek God together with them? Do you ever wait on the Lord with them to hear what He is saying in any and every situation? The first church did. They followed the teaching of Jesus, as illustrated in the Gospel account of Mary sitting and listening at Jesus’ feet (Luke 10:42). We have a choice in our generation, just as they had at the beginning, and it’s whether to live God’s way or ours. Will we be those who not only walk and talk with Jesus in our personal life but have the wisdom and courage to say when in the company of other believers, “Let us seek the Lord together and see what He will say to us.”