Welcome back to another episode of five minutes in church history and as promised we are returning to our discussion with Dr. Sinclair Ferguson and he is with us again from Scotland.

Dr Ferguson.

Well, it's so good to hear you again, Steve.

It's a lovely day here again in Scotland.

Well, I'm glad that you still have sunshine.

And you're in Carnuste, but this past, you were in, now am I pronouncing this properly,

D'Ornach?

Darnach, exactly.

Dornach.

Let's go to your book in the year of our Lord, and you've got a chapter here on the sixth century and you call it

Christianity in Scotland. Now it doesn't surprise me at all that you're talking

about Scotland I'm glad you are. So help us learn a little bit about the history of the

church in Scotland. Do you mention two people, Ninian and Columba?

Yes, the truth is that the story of how the gospel came to Scotland is somewhat

shrouded in mystery and the two figures who are probably most significant are figures who have tended to be

shrouded in a little mythology. And so with many of these figures in the in the beginnings of what we sometimes call the dark ages

You have to try and put all the material into a sieve and shake it and you know try and get down to the roots of the matter.

But what was true of both of these men, both of these men were I think what we might call monk evangelists.

One of the things I say in the book is,

you know, there are people with regenerated hearts who have sometimes quite confused heads.

In this period you sense that there is not all of the understanding of the

people of the gospel that we would desire.

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