<DIV> <p> </p> <DIV><B><i>What can we know about the practices of the early church? </i></B></div> <DIV> </div> <DIV> </div> <DIV>“The Didache is the most important book you've never read,” begins Tony Jones, in this engaging study.</div> <DIV> </div> <DIV>The Didache is an early handbook of an anonymous Christian community, likely written before some of the New Testament books were written. It spells out a way of life for Jesus-followers that includes instruction on how to treat one another, how to practice the Eucharist, and how to take in wandering prophets. In <i>The Teaching of the Twelve</i>, Jones unpacks the ancient document, and he traces the life of a small house church in Missouri that is trying to live according to its precepts. </div> <DIV> </div> <DIV>Readers will find <i>The Teaching of the Twelve</i> inspirational and challenging, and they will discover a unique window into the life of the very earliest followers of Jesus the Christ. A new, contemporary English translation of the Didache is included.</div> <DIV> </div> </div>