Any community that cannot artfully and effectively pass on its cherished way of life cannot long endure. Any way of life that cannot be clearly specified, exhibited, and differentiated from the alternative modes operative within the surrounding culture is doomed to growing insignificance and to gradual assimilation. Faced with these harsh realities, the Didache spells out in detail the training program calculated to irreversibly alter the habits of perception and standards of judgment of novices coming out of a Gentile life style. The task of this essay is to recover the organic unity and the pastoral progression of topics within this training program. Furthermore, this essay draws attention to the servant Christology of the Didache along with the clues of orality found within the text. This enables the author to judge that the Greek manuscript discovered by Archbishop Bryennios in 1873 derived from an oral recitation that was either unaware of or opposed to the high exaltation “return of Jesus” expectations found within the letters of Paul and the Gospel of Matthew. The way is thus open for acknowledging that the Didache predated the written Gospels and avoided the apocalyptic factionalism of Christians like Paul by insisting with the Jewish prophet Zechariah that the “Lord” expected to return in the end times would be none other than the “God of David”.