It was such pleasure to celebrate our 500th episode of Five Minutes in Church History with you last week.

Thanks for being with us and crossing that milestone together.

So, enjoyed having Chris Larson and just reminiscing over this podcast and the times that I've been able to share it with you.

For our 501st episode, we are dipping back into the archives and airing the very first episode on our good friend Augustin.

Thanks for listening to Five Minutes in Church History.

Welcome to our first edition of Five Minutes in Church History.

Let's start with one of the towering figures in Church History, Augustin.

Now, first things first, how do you pronounce his name?

I had a Church History professor in seminary who liked to say St. Augustine is in Florida, St. Augustin is in heaven.

So, let's go with that.

I'm struck by the very first word and Augustin's classic book, The Confessions.

The word usually gets translated great.

A recent translation has the word as vast.

The Latin is magnus and Augustin uses it to refer to God.

This is why we need Church History.

We need to be reminded of what matters and what matters most.

Do you know a sociologist of a few decades ago called us the belly button generation?

We are so consumed with our own selves, so captivated by our own selves.

This sociologist was saying we're like infants when they first discover their own belly button.

They're utterly fascinated by it.

Okay, when you're an infant, but as we grow up, if we fail to see there's a whole world around us,

we are living pretty shallow lives.

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