Love

Slender and curved 

Beautiful smile and glare 

Classic wear and smear 

Gracious glide and stride 

Admirable and amiable 

Beautiful! Lovely 

Tall dark and handsome 

Muscular and agile 

Designer suits and scent 

Owner of latest toys 

Stashed accounts 

Handsome, lovable

Time

Tick tock, Tick tock 

Persistently proceeds, 

The chime of time 

The precious of all, 

Earthly commodities 

Tick tock, Tick tock 

Today smiling optimistic toddler 

Tomorrow wailing nostalgic older 

For time is a revealer, 

Of wasted time

A Brief History of the Church of Christ

Before we begin this amazing journey, I lack the words to express how important history is to a people. Wayne E. King¹ said “humanity is a continuous process and without a past there is no future.” I concur with that statement. I also agree with Henry S. Commager² that “For a people to be without history, or to be ignorant of its history, is as for a person to be without memory”

Church history plays a very significant role in understanding what the church is or is supposed to be. Through church history you will be able to eliminate unnecessary traditions and practices from the church which are a hindrance to the fulfilment of the Great Commission and the mandate of Jesus Christ. It is a journey that I welcome you to take with me. Please note that this is not a detailed history of the church of Christ, I might have skipped some areas that you deem important, I did not do that intentionally, it is because of lack of enough time. Hence I ask you to bear with me.

A Brief History of The Temple

It is with utter pleasure that I take this opportunity to walk you through a journey of the history of the Temple. If you are influenced by a tradition that was established in the past, then the past should be clear to you, because, as George Santayana put it, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”¹ . Hence I welcome you to this journey of discovery.

The history of the temple can be traced back to the desire of God to dwell among his people. This goes back to Genesis when God would visit Adam and Eve in the cool of the day so he could hung out with them. Later sin created a rift which separated man from God and for many years God used specific chosen people to communicate his will to his people. Although God hid his face from his people, his desire to dwell with his people was never quenched. It is God who initiated the move to restore man to fellowship with Him.

The Passover and the Lord’s Table

Throughout  history, there is one denominator that cuts across all cultures and nations when it comes to communication, or passing on of information from one generation to the next, and that is symbols. A symbol is a thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract. Hence symbols are not in themselves the idea or the event but rather a representation of the idea or the event that they symbolize. All world religions have symbols which bear some sacred truths and Christianity and the church has its share of the same. Among the many symbols and sacred rituals in Christianity, I feel obliged today to write about the Passover and the Lord’s Table.