(A very brief outline of Church history)

Briefly and simply, the Orthodox Christian Church is the Church of the Apostles, the Church founded by Christ Himself, as it has survived intact through the ages to the present day.

This statement will come as a surprise to many who have been taught or have vaguely believed that the Church of the Apostles and martyrs somehow died out when the Faith was legalized in the fourth century, to be replaced by a state-run institution that fell into all kinds of error and was finally resurrected by the Protestant reformers twelve hundred years later. However, the statement above is the simple truth. Christ promised, "On this rock [the faith of the Apostles] I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it" (Matthew 16:18). The Orthodox Christian Church is the living fulfillment of that promise.

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