The teaching efforts of the disciples and their students, for example, have been captured in an ancient Christian education text known as the Didache (“The Lord’s Teaching through the Twelve Apostles to the Nations”). The Didache was used to teach new believers in a “question and answer” approach. Male and female students spent two to three years learning in an instructor’s home.8 It wasn’t long before Christian students were being taught more than theology and godly living. Ignatius of Antioch (the student of the apostle John that I described earlier) encouraged teachers in Christian
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