Our Guests Dennis and Jennifer Clark
SID: Hello, Sid Roth here with Dr. Jennifer and Dennis Clark. As far as I’m concerned, their brand new book is one of the most significant game changers I have seen, I think ever. Jennifer, in 2016 both of you had a God-given hunger to pursue God more than any other time in your life. You found yourself at a whole new level with God.
JENNIFER: Yes.
SID: Tell me about that.
JENNIFER: It started out with a sense of the darkness in the world today is so great that it’s going to take a Book of Acts kind of Christian to be able to handle what needs to be done. So we were looking back at the early church with a hunger in our hearts to ourselves walk in what the early church walked in but also as pastors to prepare a people who would be ready to walk in that. So we really presented our lives as living sacrifices and, “God, whatever it takes.”
JENNIFER: It felt at times like in the Book of Genesis when it talked about the Spirit hovering over the face of the waters. We felt like we were in a Holy Spirit incubator in the presence of God. God began to take us back to some of the writings of John Wesley and the way he discipled that in one generation, he changed an entire nation. And it was crying out to the Lord, “Do it again, Lord. We present ourselves. We lay ourselves on the altar to be used in this way.” And Dennis had the experience, and a few days later Dennis prayed for me, and I came into the experience after really knowing about it for 30 years. Then, the next Sunday we went to church.
SID: So it is impartible.
JENNIFER: It’s impartible.
DENNIS: It’s impartible.
JENNIFER: And many people sovereignly came into the experience just listening to us teach about it.
DENNIS: That’s right.
JENNIFER: Then we had an altar call. It just transformed our church and the level of hunger for God and the, I would say, passion for God.
SID: Do you know? I don’t know about you. I want more hunger than I have. I’m hungry for more of God, but I want more than I have. I want more passion for God than I have. But it is a grace, and it’s impartible, and that is what’s exciting me so much. Well, then, Jennifer, you bumped into the lost teachings of the apostle. It’s called the Didache.
JENNIFER: Yes.
SID: What does the word didache mean?
JENNIFER: Didache can mean teaching or training. But it implies more of a rigorous training like an athlete preparing for competition would receive.
SID: Okay, the lost teaching. I mean, that was 2,000-some years ago. How do you know it was the apostles that did it, and it wasn’t just some monk that signed their names?
JENNIFER: Well, in 1873 the first and only complete copy of the manuscript of the Didache was discovered by a Greek Orthodox cleric in a library in a monastery. He found it in 1873, and then it began to be studied. But the scholars and historians who were studying it were just like Lone Rangers. And in the year 2000 a coalition of historians and scholars was formed to bring all of it together and get a general consensus. I mean, the best in the world of the scholars who were studying the Didache came together, studied it intently for 11 years, and the consensus was that this was written before any of the Gospels, was written before any of the Epistles, and it was written by Jewish believers in the first century around or before 50 A.D.
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