All the men of past ages did whatever they did for themselves and we can learn valuable lessons from their victories and mistakes.” – So why dont we spend time reading about them at church?
Thanks you for your question. Since you use the expression “our church”, you probably attend the Greek Free Church but the answer below applies in any case. If there is one thing we aim to do from the pulpit of our church it is to spend as much time possible studying the Word of God. In there we read about the men of God, their lives and what we can learn from them in order to understand the Lord who calls us to serve Him. Since the early times, many other things were written and said and several traditions were established based these. In order to avoid the distortion that history has introduced through the writings of men, we limit our review of these men to those presented to us in scripture. There are definitely other people who devoted their lives to serving their beloved God, but the Apostle John tells us that ‘These things have been written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing you may have life in his name’ (John 20:31). We are comfor
