This morning we’ll be looking at our first piece of extra-biblical Christian writings from the early church. The Didache (pronounced did-a-kay) is dated somewhere around 70 AD in the aftermath of the Jewish Rebellion and contains both moral teachings and local church polity. You can download an MSWord document of the Didache here. Here’s a highlight from the document – one way to identify a false prophet:
Let every apostle who cometh unto you be received as the Lord. And let the apostle when departing take nothing but bread until he arrive at his resting-place; but if he ask for money, he is a false prophet. (Didache 11:4,6)
I guess certain forms of televangelism probably wouldn’t have been too successful in the first century. 