In 389, Augustine co-wrote a book, he called it, the teacher.

The title comes from a text, Matthew, chapter 23, verse 10, which reads, for you have one instructor or one teacher, Christ.

Augustine said, this book discusses and inquires and discovers that there is no teacher who teaches men knowledge

except God as written in the gospel and he quotes Matthew chapter 23 10. Of course that is

very significant the title of the book and where it came from. It's also significant

that this book was written in 389.

It was just three years after Augustine's conversion.

You remember his story, he leaves Hippo there in North Africa,

goes up to Rome, goes to Milan, is literally running away from God like

Jonah or the Prodigal son, but God catches him. In fact, God has been directing him and directing every step of his path straight to him.

And in 386, in Milan, he was converted. In 388, he leaves Rome and heads back to Carthage and then on to theghast and Hippo and

North Africa and there he will serve for the rest of his life as Bishop.

But this is in 389.

It is early in his Christian time.

So the title is significant.

The date is significant.

But what is really significant is that Augustine had a co-author for this book.

And this was not just any co-author, it was a teenager.

A 16-year-old came along to help Augustine write this book.

And it was not just any 16-year-old, it was his son, Adiodatus.

The teacher is a dialogue, a dialogue between Father and Son,

the Father Augustine, and the Son Adio Datus.

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