Many key leaders were captured and killed and their precious books burned. In fact, there were at least two full-scale government sponsored persecutions intended to exterminate your people. Your people were a despised and illegal group for most of that time. You are selected to tell in detail the story of your people. Suppose you are part of a people whose origins go back to around the 1690’s, almost a century before America was an independent nation. To get an idea of the challenge, picture this. Think of the incredible task he set out to accomplish! Eusebius is going to cover over 300 years of church history. Then Eusebius, the bishop of Caesarea in Israel, saw the importance of preserving the story of the early Christian church for us who would become believers in later generations. But after that there was no major effort to record the history of the church, at least not one that anyone is aware of, until around the year 325. He also gave us the book of Acts, an account of the early church during the time of Peter and Paul. Who was the first church historian? Most Christians would immediately say the Gospel writer Luke.
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