Hi guys, my name is Johnny Yardavannis and this is dial-in.

In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Nathan Boosnitz and I ask him about the importance of studying and knowing church history.

Furthermore, I ask him about three figures from church history, everyone should know and how studying these figures not only inform us about the past, but shape our lives in the present.

Let's dial in.

Dr. Boozan, thanks so much for sitting down once again.

You know, you are an expert at church history.

And I remember, I think it's Edmund Burke who says those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.

Now, the subject of church history is one that I've become increasingly interested in, even since taking your classes at the seminary.

I want to talk to you about its importance in the life of a Christian.

Why should we study church history? How would you

respond to that? Yeah, that's a great question. I have actually a lot of reasons why. I have a list of

10 of them that I give at the beginning of my class every semester because, you know, history is

something that people don't always naturally gravitate toward. And so guys come to my

class and they're kind of like, oh, great, this is going to be a boring class because it's history.

And what I like to tell them right off the bat is don't think of this so much as a history class.

Think of it as a class about the church, right? Church history. This is the story of what God has been doing in the world

through the advancement of the gospel

over the last 2,000 years.

And if you love the church,

you will love the history of the church

because we love the history of the things that we love.

So church history is about the

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