The Gospels, Hidden Figures, and Strength in Diversity

During January of each year, our church brings in a biblical scholar to teach through a book. This year is Matthew. In the first adult Bible Study last week,Tom Yoder Neufeld covered many introductory topics, including his explanation of the layers that go into each Gospel: Jesus, the oral history, the compiler, and so on. He also talked about how there was an effort in the early church to compile into one Gospel, which was soundly rejected. That left me thinking: Why? If the goal is strictly...