Among the many brilliant things that C.S.
Lewis said was his phrase of "chronological
snobbery."
Just the other day, I met a person, we were
talking about the Bible, and he said to me,
"I'm not a caveman.
I can't believe in the Bible."
I knew exactly what he meant.
Even as Christians, we can let some of that
chronological snobbery seep into our thinking
and sometimes unknowingly.
We need to not think that we have finally
arrived—that we as the church in the 21st
century, we've got it all buttoned up, we've
got it all together, and we have nothing to
learn from the past.
When we say 'oh, I don't need church history
or we're past church history—there's nothing
really we can learn from it, what we are saying
is we have nothing to learn from what the
Holy Spirit has been teaching for the past
2,000 years.
Let's realize that we do indeed have something
to learn from the past.
