First century Jews who became believers in the Messiah knew the Torah and followed the Jewish moral teachings. It was another story when the gentiles began joining the Messianic community after Peter led gentiles to Jesus when he visited the house of Cornelius.
How do we disciple gentiles who come from a different culture, worship many gods, and are completely ignorant about biblical morality? The Apostles wrote a short teaching manual for this very purpose! The Didache, also known as The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles to the Nations [Gentiles], is a brief early treatise dated by most modern scholars to the first century between AD 50-70. It provides a window into the faith and practice of the earliest Gentiles disciples and the instructions they received from the Jewish apostles.
The Didache was considered an early discipleship manual for gentile believers coming to faith in Messiah. Its wisdom and simplicity are still relevant for us today, both for new believers as well as those who have been in the faith for many years.
The Didache was lost for centuries and amazingly rediscovered in a dusty monastery library in 1873 as though God Himself had kept hidden for an end-time generation.
This 14-lesson study on the Didache will enlighten and greatly bless those believers who want to understand the priorities and life of the earliest believers in Jesus our Savior, Yeshua Ha-Mashiach.
(You may also want to purchase the Didache booklet that contains the 16 chapters found in the Didache itself.)
