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“Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made your good confession in the presence of many witnesses” (1 Timothy 6:12).
The apostle suggests to Timothy, that he had other business to do than to mind the things of this world. His life was a state of warfare as he was a soldier, and was not to entangle himself with the things of this life.
He had many enemies to engage with, including Satan, and his principalities and powers; sin, and the lusts of the flesh; the world, and the men of it, and a great fight of afflictions to endure with them; as also false teachers, with, whom particularly he was to fight the good fight of faith, that so the truth of the Gospel, which they resisted, might continue with the saints.
This fight is called "the fight of faith"; partly in opposition to the law, and in which the false teachers, in the apostle's time, were so much engaged, and against whom the apostles set themselves. And partly…
Songwriters living in ancient Egypt would never have expected the words and melodies they sang would feature on Australian music charts 1,800 years later.
But one Australian academic's obsession with a fragment of a document found in an old Egyptian rubbish heap has helped to share an ancient song with the world.
The document known as Papyrus P. Oxy. XV 1786 (P. Oxy 1786) was found amongst thousands of other fragments of documents in the 19th and 20th centuries — a contract to rig a wrestling match, a corn contract, a Roman arrest warrant for a Christian and the front page of Mark's Gospel from the Bible — in Oxyrhynchus, Egypt.
P. Oxy 1786 is the oldest known Christian song with musical notations on the manuscript.
The moment Professor John Dickson saw it he knew it needed to be shared with the world.
Dr Dickson said."I'm looking down the microscope at that particular item and literally, in a rush of blood to the head, I thought 'why has no one brought this back to life and given it back to the world?'"
Dr Dickson said there were about 60 examples of ancient Greek music from 400BC to 300AD, but…
Historian John Dickson knows that “early” Christian music usually refers to sacred chants from the ninth or tenth century. So when he noticed a reference to an ancient hymn from hundreds of years before that—way back in the third century—he was immediately curious.
The words and musical notations to this obscure sacred song, penned in Greek on a tattered papyrus fragment uncovered over a century ago, named the “Father, Son, and Holy Spirit” and responded to pagan beliefs.
“The Christians who produced this were trying to create music that was understandable for their surrounding culture,” Dickson told CT. “It’s simultaneously worship and public Christianity.”
The ancient Greek hymn is by far the oldest surviving piece of Christian music—it predates the next notated work by six centuries. Inspired by the ancient fragment, Dickson reached out to Ben Fielding, a fellow Aussie and a songwriter for Hillsong, to turn it into a singable work for today’s church.
Early conversations between Dickson and Fielding eventually led to a collaboration with Grammy-winning worship artist Chris Tomlin, culminating in the production of a new worship song, “The First Hymn,” and a documentary about the discovery and…