This is the final episode in the series “Why I Am a Pentecostal“… I hope it has been thought provoking for you!

I will provide my own personal testimony about this in the near future, but in the meantime, please don’t hesitate to email me if you have any questions. Also, I highly recommend the following messages for further study on the distinctives of Pentecostal doctrine…

(*All messages can be found in the New Life Church Sermon Archive.)

05/19/10 | “The Oneness of God,” Pastor Bernard
05/26/10 | “The Identity of Jesus Christ,” Pastor Bernard
06/02/10 | “The New Birth,” Pastor Shaw
06/09/10 | “Speaking in Tongues: Initial Evidence of Spirit Baptism,” Pastor Shaw
08/08/10 | “Be Filled with the Spirit, Part 1,” Pastor Shaw
08/08/10 | “Be Filled with the Spirit, Part 2,” Pastor Shaw

Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Restoring the Apostles’ Doctrine
Date: 5/5/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: The hermeneutical spiral – constant interaction with the text; What’s unique about Pentecostals and restorationists is that we bring something a little different–we bring an experience of the Spirit of God; Not only are we gaining understanding, but we are also gaining experience; Then we bring that experience/spiritual encounter with God back to the text; The role of history–History documents the extent to which people have been faithful to the Word of God; If we lifted up 2,000 years of history and set it aside, and then took your experience and your belief and put it side by side with only the New Testament… does it fit? Does it match?; Like the Apostle Paul asked the Ephesians, we can feel very confident asking… have you received the Holy Spirit since you believed? That’s not a question we get from 2,000 years of church history, it’s a question we get from the New Testament (see Acts 19:1-7)

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Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Restoring the Apostles’ Doctrine
Date: 5/5/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: In Acts 2:37 they ask the big question… “What do we have to do?”; If the Apostles understood this the way moderns understand it, they would have said “Repeat the prayer after me, and say with your mouth Jesus Christ is Lord, and you’re done”; But in Acts 2:38 Peter said that to call on the name of the Lord and be saved you must repent of your sins, get baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, and then you will receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost; The “whoever will call on the name of the Lord” is not a formula for salvation, it’s a statement of the availability of God’s salvation–whoever calls on the name of the Lord is going to be saved; Romans 10:12 – “For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.”; If you come with an 18th Century Calvinist understanding of this, you get a doctrine that says conversion is you confessing with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and Savior, therefore you’re saved; But if you have a restorationist hermeneutic and say “what did the Apostles do?…”; The passage in Romans is written to people that are already saved–Paul isn’t walking them through conversion, but pointing them back to the assurance of their conversion; We actually see such a conversion in Acts 2, with the same verse being quoted; We take the Apostles’ example and understand Romans 10 through the lens of how the Apostles preached those very same verses when they preached to sinners

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Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Restoring the Apostles’ Doctrine
Date: 5/5/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Romans 10:1-13; Often used as a formula for salvation… if you confess that Jesus Christ is Lord with your mouth then you’re saved; The question is, how did the Apostles do this?; Paul is quoting several passages from the Old Testament; Romans 10:13 – “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved“; Scholars believe Paul is specifically referring to a baptismal confession (in the waters of baptism, people are calling on the name of Jesus Christ, affirming Him as their Savior); Paul quotes from the Old Testament prophet Joel – “For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” (quotation from Joel 2); We also see this in Acts 2–Peter preaches on the day of Pentecost, tells them that these people speaking with tongues is the fulfillment of Joel’s prophecy that God is going to pour out His Spirit on all flesh… and that whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved

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Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Restoring the Apostles’ Doctrine
Date: 5/5/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Hermeneutics – the art and science of how we interpret texts; There are different ways of going about reading different kinds of texts; The way restorationists approach Scripture: 1) A literal interpretation if and when possible (a command to “repent” would be interpreted literally), 2) Scripture is always above the history that followed it (it doesn’t matter what any subsequent theologian claims… what does the New Testament say?), 3) Apostolic pattern; Matthew 28:19, The Great Commission – “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost“–only Scripture in the New Testament that makes any sort of allusion to that; In the book of Acts, you have repeated accounts of people being baptized invoking the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, never the language in Matthew 28:19; In the Epistles we learn that the practice was to baptize invoking the name of the Lord Jesus Christ; Many references to Jesus’ name baptism, but no references to being baptized in “Father, Son, and Holy Ghost”; If anybody knew what Jesus meant in Matthew 28:19, it was the Apostles; Trinitarian ideology was informed by Greek philosophy/understanding; Trinitarian language comes from the councils and creeds; Who gets to better understand Matthew 28:19?–the 1st Century Apostles who come from a Jewish background, or 4th Century Greek scholars?; When the Apostles go to baptize, they either disobey Jesus Christ throughout the rest of the New Testament, or they carried out His command exactly as He commanded it; We give preference to the Apostolic pattern… not to 3rd/4th Century patterns

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Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Restoring the Apostles’ Doctrine
Date: 5/5/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: The Apostles and their associates had a fear that there would be a departing; 2 Timothy 3:13-14 – “But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them“; It’s a backwards look–it’s already been established; The New Testament writers have this sense that people will continually be tempted to be led away from the foundational doctrinal principles; 2 Timothy 4:3-4 – “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.“‘; Appeal to teach the word and doctrine that had already been delivered into the church; Cleave to the teachings, resist the change; 2 Peter 3:15-18 – “Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.“; The concern is that they will be led away doctrinally; Jude 3 – “earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints“; It’s a past tense thing, even for the New Testament writers–it’s not something to be fleshed out, developed, and evolved over the centuries

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Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Restoring the Apostles’ Doctrine
Date: 5/5/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: 2 Peter 1:3 – “According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue“; Peter is writing before there is even a recognized New Testament, and he is admonishing the church that the teaching of the Apostles is adequate and sufficient; The early church recognized the danger in departing from the teaching of the Apostles–there is an attempt to look backwards to the doctrine that is already living in the church, not look forward to the ongoing development of new theology; When it comes to basic doctrinal principles, it’s always a look backwards to what was originally taught; Colossians 2:6-10 – “As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power“; If you only have the New Testament, and you stop right there and believe that… how in the world can you get what we get out of creeds and councils?–it’s not possible

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Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Restoring the Apostles’ Doctrine
Date: 5/5/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: After Jesus invests them with authority, the Apostles stand up in unison/agreement on the day of Pentecost; Ephesians 2:19-20 – “…built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone“; The Apostles are part of the foundation of the church; You don’t get Luther, Calvin, Wesley, Parham, Seymour, or anybody else in this foundation… you get the apostles, and prophets, and Jesus Christ as the chief cornerstone; There is an Apostolic authority–we give preference to the Apostles; The early church themselves had a pattern of appealing to the Apostles; Acts 2:42 – “And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine…“; The Apostles got their doctrine from Jesus Christ and the guidance of the Holy Spirit; The early church recognized the authority that was vested in the Apostolic community; Jude 17 – “remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ“; Jude, the half-brother of Jesus, appeals to the Apostolic authority in that band of Apostles; The authority for New Testament doctrine lies in the teaching and proclamation of the Apostles

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Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Restoring the Apostles’ Doctrine
Date: 5/5/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: The way we do theology is that we give preference to the Apostles; Justification by faith; Sanctification; New Testament; Apostolic authority – the Apostles had an authority that no other group of ministers had–it was invested in them by Jesus Christ; Matthew 10:40 – “He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.“; Accounts of baptism in the New Testament; Matthew 28:19 – Great Commission account; Jesus didn’t write the book of Matthew–you don’t get the choice to believe Jesus or the Apostles… you pretty much get to believe the Apostles; How do we “receive” the Apostles?–We receive their writings; John 17:20 – “Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word“; Saving faith in Jesus Christ comes to us through the words of the Apostles, not the words of creeds and church traditions; Acts 2:14-47 – First sermon of the Christian church; Peter stands up authoritatively with the 11 Apostles in full agreement; You can’t pit Peter against other writings in the New Testament; You have the choice to accept or not accept the New Testament

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Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Restoring the Apostles’ Doctrine
Date: 5/5/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: We’re left with three choices: 1) The Apostles’ Christianity/doctrine was incomplete and some later understanding of Christianity was complete, 2) Today’s Christianity has evolved to be complete/accurate/right, 3) The Apostles’ Christianity was complete, and therefore modifications of that are departures from authentic/true Christianity; Apostolic doctrine and practice are the model; History is very important, but when we’re talking about authentic Christian doctrine and experience, history is not the authority… the New Testament is; The Restorationist position is that the Apostles’ Christianity was complete

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Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Restoring the Apostles’ Doctrine
Date: 5/5/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: There are many versions of baptism today–submersion, immersion, sprinkling, pouring, infant baptism, trine baptism, Matthew 28:19, etc.; How far can you go changing the model until the model is no longer the model?; Restorationists say it’s better if you don’t tweak the model at all–it’s better if you just obey the model you have in Scripture, because we don’t have the authority to change the model; To what degree can you change the model and still have authentic Christianity?; Speaking in tongues as the initial evidence of people receiving the baptism of the Holy Spirit–If you throw that out the window, on what authority can you claim anyone has received the baptism of the Holy Spirit?; If you’re going to tweak the model, on what/who’s authority do you get to change it?; Protestant Reformation; Catholic Church; Martin Luther; Reformation inside the Catholic Church; If the church today looked exactly like it did when Luther stepped on the scene, to what extent would that sort of Christianity be authentic?; Common tradition of Christianity vs. a primitive/restorationist model that leapfrogs over history back into the New Testament

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Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Restoring the Apostles’ Doctrine
Date: 5/5/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Restorationists would say the model for the “new birth” and Christian living is in the New Testament, and that’s what we should follow; If you don’t embrace that teaching, on what authority do you get to say that the normative experiences of the New Testament are no longer valid?; Speaking in tongues is a normative experience in the book of Acts, and seems to be linked with the reception of the Holy Spirit; If you say that speaking in tongues was for the apostles but not for today, on what authority can you say that?; Epistemology – How can you know something is true and on what authority?; Those questions go away when you simply lift up the New Testament as your model and follow it obediently; To what degree can you change the model and still have authentic Christianity?; Scholars admit that the New Testament pattern/model of baptism is submersion in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ–to what extent can you change the model and it still be authentic Christian experience?

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Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Restoring the Apostles’ Doctrine
Date: 5/5/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Restorationists would say that the model for the normal Christian experience is the New Testament; You don’t stop at the Pentecostal movement in 1901 or 1906, John Wesley, the Calvinist Awakenings, Calvin, Luther, or creeds and councils–you go to where the original Christian experience is documented (the New Testament); What is the model for normative Christian doctrine and experience, and who gets to decide? – Only the Scripture has the authority to answer that question; If there were no model, it would be up to every individual, church, and tradition to come up with what they feel is the normal Christian experience/doctrine; Unfortunately that is exactly what has happened over time

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Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Restoring the Apostles’ Doctrine
Date: 5/5/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Restoring the Apostles’ doctrine; Restorationism (Primitivism) – appealing to what is primitive/ancient/old/original; Model/example for normative Christianity; All of Christian belief and practice–in one way or another–is built upon the New Testament; Logically speaking, the normative Christian experience is in the New Testament; Individual, unique experiences with God cannot be lifted up as the “norm”

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Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: The Pentecostal Movement
Date: 4/28/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Challenge to take the Bible prayerfully and ask, “God, what do you want for my life?”; This is not a conversation about you and church history, it’s a conversation about you, the Bible, and God; You don’t seek to be faithful to a tradition, you seek to be faithful to this Revelation; Ask the question, “Is it in this Book, and does God want me to have it?”; If you pray that way, God will lead you exactly to what you need–God will reveal Himself to you; Restorationism – Restoring the Apostles’ doctrine; The Protestant Reformation said “sola scriptura” (Scripture alone) as well, but that’s not what they did; Principles about coming to Scripture and not tainting it by human reasoning or ideas

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Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: The Pentecostal Movement
Date: 4/28/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: This story shows us how a group of people went on a journey, trying to get back to what the Scripture says; They found out that when they obeyed Scripture, it lead them to an understanding that Spirit baptism is evidenced with tongues, it’s part of the “new birth”, and the only way people were baptized was invoking the name of the Lord Jesus Christ; Parham, Seymour, Azusa Street, Ewart, Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, Augustine–we glean from their insights, but our ultimate and sole authority is Scripture; Scripture is our starting point and our ending point; History of the United Pentecostal Church; Authentic practices, experiences, and beliefs revealed in the Bible; The ultimate conversation is not about the Reformation, or Azusa Street, or any other street… it’s about what has God revealed to us in His Word, and how we can be faithful to it

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Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: The Pentecostal Movement
Date: 4/28/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Quote from Edith Blumhofer, Assemblies of God Pentecostal scholar (Assemblies of God are trinitarian and do not believe that Spirit baptism is essential); If you follow the restorationist hermeneutic (understanding of Scripture) that Pentecostalism started with, oneness Pentecostals follow it more rigidly than the rest; Pentecostalism is trying to restore the apostles’ doctrine, but trinitarian Pentecostals borrowed a whole bunch of things from mainline Christianity; Oneness Pentecostals backed up and evaluated all of it through the lens of Scripture; History is not our authority for doctrine–all history does is show us the extent to which people have been faithful to Scripture; The authority rests on Scripture

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Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: The Pentecostal Movement
Date: 4/28/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Frank Ewart said the apostles’ practice (of baptizing in Jesus’ name) was linked to their understanding that Jesus Christ was God manifested in flesh, not just one person of God manifested in flesh; Ewart claimed that the name of Jesus Christ was invoked in baptism by the apostles in full obedience to Matthew 28:19–they knew exactly what they were doing; We only have record of people being baptized in the New Testament in the name of Jesus; On April 15th, 1914, Ewart preached his first message on Acts 2:38, declaring that repentance, baptism in Jesus’ name, and the infilling of the Holy Spirit with the evidence of tongues is New Testament salvation; He also associated the name of Jesus in baptism with the “oneness” of God; Divergence in Pentecostal history between trinitarian Pentecostals and oneness Pentecostals; Ewart and his fellow minister, Glen Cook, re-baptized each other in Jesus’ name; Standing against an established tradition–the Anabaptists got killed for doing this stuff; 300 years earlier in Europe, Frank Ewart and Glen Cook would have been killed

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Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: The Pentecostal Movement
Date: 4/28/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: World-Wide Camp Meeting in Arroyo Seco, California in 1913; Robert McAlister preaches the baptism sermon–points out that in the New Testament they didn’t baptize by triple immersion in the trinitarian formula; A guy named John Schaeppe was in the audience–he began praying and studying, and in the middle of the night he ran through the camp screaming “I see it! I see it! I see it!”; He had an understanding of Jesus’ name baptism in the New Testament; McAlister later preaches his first sermon on the exclusive use of the name of Jesus in baptism in Winnepeg in 1913–30 people were baptized in Jesus’ name; McAlister began working with Frank Ewart, who concluded that the apostles baptized in the name of Jesus because Jesus was the full revelation of the Godhead bodily

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Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: The Pentecostal Movement
Date: 4/28/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: William Durham got the conversation going for people trying to get back to what Scripture says–back to what New Testament salvation is; The next big issue in the Pentecostal movement–”the new issue”; The entire Pentecostal movement is founded on restorationist principles; Charles Parham asked the question, “What does the Bible say about Spirit baptism?”; Processing everything through Scripture instead of history and creeds; The “new issue” leads to Jesus’ name baptism and an acknowledgment of the “oneness” of God; Christocentric worship, theology, and vocabulary; Exaltation/elevation of the name of Jesus; Before the “new issue”, there were already some who baptized invoking the name of Jesus Christ–Charles Parham, Andrew Urshan, etc.

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Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: The Pentecostal Movement
Date: 4/28/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: William Durham began preaching what he called the “finished work of Calvary”; Said that sanctification (holiness) is actually part of the “new birth” experience–there is no second experience of sanctification; Challenged the entire Holiness movement establishment and theology by saying there is no “saved and sanctified”; Believed that you get saved, and the power of God’s grace in that saving act is power to sanctify you; Durham said that what Jesus purchased for us in salvation is enough, there’s nothing else we can get except the salvation that Jesus brings; Durham collapses sanctification back into the “new birth”, but he still keeps Spirit baptism as a second experience; Went from three works of grace down to two; Still affirmed Acts 2:38 as the fullest sense of salvation–said that a person who was really living for God wouldn’t just be saved, but would go on to receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost; Theological division in the Pentecostal movement–denominations that went with Durham’s theology think of the Holy Ghost as an “added blessing” (not essential for salvation); Practical outcomes of theology about the baptism of the Spirit; The average United Pentecostal Church has around 90% of teens and adults filled with the baptism of the Holy Ghost

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Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: The Pentecostal Movement
Date: 4/28/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: William Durham was a Baptist minister–came from the Baptist tradition; He receives the baptism of the Holy Spirit at Azusa Street; Durham comes to three conclusions after receiving the baptism of the Spirit with the evidence of tongues: 1) The baptism of the Holy Spirit was a different kind of experience–unlike anything he had experienced before, 2) He couldn’t claim the baptism of the Spirit, he had to wait until He came, 3) Speaking in tongues was the sign of this experience

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Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: The Pentecostal Movement
Date: 4/28/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Azusa Street; William Seymour; Started in 1906 and lasted until 1909; Services every single day; Mixed congregation; Holiness churches; People from all around the world heard about the Azusa Street Revival; Missionaries came, received the baptism of the Holy Spirit, and took the message back to their countries; The Pentecostal message spread around the world from Azusa Street; Charles Parham was arguably the “father” of the Pentecostal movement, but the work at Azusa Street under William Seymour propelled it into a global, world-wide movement; The baptism of the Spirit became the normal, accepted experience of those who came seeking it–it became normalized; “Saved/Sanctified/Filled with the Spirit” message about to change; First controversy in the Pentecostal movement; Trying to get back to what the Bible says; Jesus’ name baptism

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Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: The Pentecostal Movement
Date: 4/28/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Parham began traveling and preaching a “saved-sanctified-filled with the Spirit” message; No objective criteria for getting sanctified; William Seymour–holiness preacher, grandson of slaves; Parham agreed to allow Seymour to sit out in the hallway of his Bible college in Houston; Seymour heard and embraced the doctrine of being able to receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost with tongues, but he had not received it; He made a trip to Los Angeles and began preaching this message; They had prayer meetings in various houses and then moved to the Azusa Street Mission; One of the owners of the houses received the baptism of the Holy Ghost, and it sparked the great Azusa Street revival

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Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: The Pentecostal Movement
Date: 4/28/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Holiness movement started using “Pentecostal” as an adjective (Pentecostal experience, etc.); Rallying cry of “Back to Pentecost”; Speaking with other tongues; Experiences with God; Baptism of the Holy Spirit language; Sanctification; Charles Parham – holiness preacher; Parham looked at scripture and felt like there was a distinct experience of being baptized in the Holy Spirit; He asked his bible college students to determine what is the New Testament evidence that a person is filled/baptized with the Holy Spirit; After study and prayer, they came to the conclusion that it was speaking with other tongues; They began to pray and receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in other tongues; Parham began to travel and teach this–there were notable revivals in Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Houston, etc.

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Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: The Pentecostal Movement
Date: 4/28/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: The historic church made sharp turns away from New Testament teachings; Protestant Reformation; Martin Luther; Attempts to restore the Christian faith; Martin Luther didn’t attempt to restore Christian doctrine all the way back to pre-council/pre-creed days… he made assumptions about the first 700-800 years of the church; After Luther, additional reformers tried to get even farther back, closer to the New Testament; Reformed theology; Anabaptists; Efforts to continue to restore Christianity; Holiness Movement; John Wesley; Justification; Sanctification; Experiences with God that empower you to overcome sin on a daily basis; Baptism in the Spirit

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Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Early American Christianity to the Holiness Movement
Date: 4/21/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Appealing to history to explain where we’ve come from; Pentecostal church history; Azusa Street is not our prototype; Our task is not to try to emulate Azusa Street, but the New Testament; History doesn’t determine what we believe… it only documents the extent to which people have been faithful to God’s revelation; We don’t rely on history to proclaim gospel truth that’s in the Bible; The Word of God stands on its own and isn’t subject to history; Let God be true and every man a liar

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Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Early American Christianity to the Holiness Movement
Date: 4/21/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: What does Scripture say?; Does my belief system and experience with God match what is in Scripture?; Go to God prayerfully and ask for yourself; Early American Christianity; Formation of a political and social climate that allowed people to pursue after God/truth in ways that were impossible in Europe; Church history/doctrine; Lutheran churches rely heavily on Martin Luther; Reformed churches rely heavily on John Calvin; Pentecostals try to rely solely on the New Testament; Our objective is to restore, proclaim, and affirm what the apostles believed, taught, and experienced

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Rodney Shaw

Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Early American Christianity to the Holiness Movement
Date: 4/21/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Early Pentecostal movement emerged from the Holiness movement; Charles Finney; Baptism in the Spirit; Holiness preachers; Charles Parham; Attempt to get back to Scripture and away from tradition; What is the New Testament evidence that someone has been filled/baptized with the Holy Spirit?… speaking with other tongues; They began seeking after (and receiving) the baptism of the Spirit; Baptism in the name of Jesus Christ; Strong cry that began at the Reformation of getting back to Scripture, back to the Word of God; Claims of orthodoxy: Who is right?; Authentic, genuine Christianity has to start and end with the New Testament; Pushing back against tradition and history, and getting back to what the Apostles preached; Severe and harsh reaction by the established churches against people who are simply trying to ask, “What does the Bible teach?”

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Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Early American Christianity to the Holiness Movement
Date: 4/21/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Wesley starts the Methodist movement and it becomes the biggest denomination in the United States; Wesley dies and the Methodist church moves away from his teachings; Revivalist group springs up called the Holiness Movement; Holiness Movement emerges right after the civil war; Sudden sense that we need to live holy lives; Revival of sanctification; The Methodist church puts the group out and it becomes the Holiness Movement; They begin to use terms like “baptism of the Spirit” and “filled with the Spirit”; Reports of people speaking with other tongues; Started using language that moved them back closer to the book of Acts; New Testament baptism of the Spirit evidenced by speaking in tongues; People began to think about the baptism of the Holy Ghost; The cry of “Back to Pentecost! Back to Pentecost!”; They knew they needed the power of the Spirit in their lives

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Rodney Shaw

Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Early American Christianity to the Holiness Movement
Date: 4/21/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: John Wesley; Conversion experience; Wesley not Calvinistic, but Arminian; People are not predestined to be damned or saved, but you have a choice to respond to the grace of God; Huge divergence from a majority of the Protestant Reformation; Doctrine of sanctification–holiness; Luther believed we are justified sinners; Wesley believed we can overcome sin and live a holy life; Wesley gets people thinking in a different framework about the power of the Holy Spirit working in us

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Rodney Shaw

Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Early American Christianity to the Holiness Movement
Date: 4/21/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Frontier revivalism; Camp meetings; Frontier preachers; Christianity becomes a religion of the people, not a religion of a hierarchy; John Wesley; Methodism; Great Awakenings; Personal spirituality and relationship with God; Wesley, an Anglican priest, comes to the conclusion that he is not saved; While listening to the introduction to the commentary on Romans written by Martin Luther, Wesley has what he ascribes his “conversion experience”, saying “My heart was strangely warmed…”

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Rodney Shaw

Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Early American Christianity to the Holiness Movement
Date: 4/21/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Jonathan Edwards; George Whitefield; What’s going on in North America is fundamentally different; Whitefield takes church out of buildings and puts it in parks, meadows, and lawns; The Great Awakening; Reactions against traditions that lead people away from a real encounter and experience with God; Reformers; Second Great Awakening; Charles Finney; Mourner’s bench/anxious bench… people would come and pray and seek after God; Overtones of what happens in Pentecostal churches–people seeking after something that is demonstrable, life-changing, powerful, and effective in their lives

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Rodney Shaw

Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Early American Christianity to the Holiness Movement
Date: 4/21/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: The Great Awakenings; Calvinistic Puritan churches; Jonathan Edwards; Evidence of salvation; Preached strong, convicting services; People began to react in church; Accounts of people speaking with tongues; George Whitefield–emotional preacher, passionate in his delivery

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Rodney Shaw

Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Early American Christianity to the Holiness Movement
Date: 4/21/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Puritan settlers; Calvinism

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Rodney Shaw

Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Early American Christianity to the Holiness Movement
Date: 4/21/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Social and political climate in the United States where people can actually live out the claims of the Reformation; Calvin and the reformers–double standard; American Christianity fundamentally different than anything that came before it; Founding Fathers; Declaration of Independence; American Constitution; Many of the founding fathers were deists–not conservative evangelical Christians–but they founded a republic where people could live out their faith

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Rodney Shaw

Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Early American Christianity to the Holiness Movement
Date: 4/21/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Christianity in America was/is fundamentally different than the forms that preceded it in Europe–it is characteristically democratic; Reversal of what happened in 325 at the Council of Nicaea (merger between the Roman Empire/Constantine and the Church); The state and the church don’t get untangled until you get to the United States of America; This will ultimately get us to the Pentecostal movement; What happened later in the Pentecostal movement was specifically suited for the political and social climate in America

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Rodney Shaw

Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Early American Christianity to the Holiness Movement
Date: 4/21/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Puritans; Corruption in the Church of England (Anglican Church); Puritans were primarily Calvinistic; Country divided down the middle; Civil war in England because of religion (Puritans vs. Church of England); First migration of Puritans was to Holland, then to Plymouth Rock; Many of the early Puritans thought North America would be the Kingdom of God

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Rodney Shaw

Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Early American Christianity to the Holiness Movement
Date: 4/21/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Protestant Reformation; Luther; Zwingli; Calvin; 4 threads of Protestantism: Lutheranism, Reformed churches, Anabaptists, Anglicans (Church of England); The English Reformation; King Henry VIII; Puritans; Catholic Church; Division in the church; Mary Tudor; Protestant scholars and pastors

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Rodney Shaw

Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Early American Christianity to the Holiness Movement
Date: 4/21/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Attempts to get back to Scripture; Protestant Reformation; Splintering of Christendom; Protestant churches “protested” (pulled away from) the Catholic Church; Claims of Orthodoxy: Who is Right?; What does it mean to be a faithful believer in the message of Scripture (to be fully Christian in a New Testament sense)?; Why is there a Pentecostal movement (historically and doctrinally)?; Early American Christianity; Holiness Movement; Restoring the Apostles’ Doctrine

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Rodney Shaw

Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: The Protestant Reformation
Date: 4/14/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: How did the reformers think of each other?… Martin Luther wouldn’t even recognize Ulrich Zwingli as a Christian–called him “the devil’s martyr”; Zwingli approved of the martyr of many of the Anabaptists; John Calvin assented to the death of Michael Servetus; Reforms never really went back to the New Testament, even though they had echoes of the New Testament; Pentecostal movement in the 20th Century; Pentecostals have a “restorationist” theology that goes back to the Reformation cry of “Scripture alone”; Settlement of Christians in North America; John Wesley; Something fundamentally different about American Christianity

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Rodney Shaw

Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: The Protestant Reformation
Date: 4/14/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Protestantism; Anglicans – Church of England; King Henry VIII; Church formed for political reasons, not theological ones; Begins to formulate its own direction and theology–winds up in the same place as other protestant groups with two sacraments: baptism and Eucharist; Embraces justification by faith; Anglican Church is a break-off from the Catholic Church; Anglican priest named John Wesley starts the Methodist movement; Wesley comes up with the doctrine of sanctification; Holiness movement comes out of Wesley’s doctrine of sanctification; Pentecostal movement comes out of the Holiness movement (as a further development of the doctrine of sanctification)

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Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: The Protestant Reformation
Date: 4/14/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Anabaptists believed in the separation of church and state; Even in the Reformation, churches were still state churches; Zwingli was the head of a state, led an army, and helped strategize to attack and kill people; Churches and the state were intricately intertwined with one another; The Anabaptists broke off of Zwingli’s group and were persecuted severely by other reformers; Anabaptists were concerned not with tradition, but with what Scripture says; John Calvin systematizes what Zwingli has set in motion–develops it into a full-bodied system of theology; Calvin was raised a Catholic, converted later in life; Views on the Eucharist (Lord’s Supper) – the presence of Christ through the power of His Spirit

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Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: The Protestant Reformation
Date: 4/14/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Anabaptists – people that “baptize again”; More restorationist than either Luther or Zwingli; Trying to restore the church without regard to history or traditions; Believer’s baptism; Even Luther retained the belief of infant baptism; Anabaptists found in Scripture that people must believe, repent, and have faith–they began to re-baptize adults; Free will vs. Predestination; Hyper view of justification by faith; Calvin’s views on faith and works of grace; Anabaptists say you have a choice–you can either accept or reject the gospel; Distinct conversion experience; Views on baptism

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Rodney Shaw

Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: The Protestant Reformation
Date: 4/14/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Luther; Zwingli; Reform; Appeal to Scripture; Zwingli pushes the envelope even farther–is committed to only appealing to Scripture even more than Luther was; Luther does an excellent job of getting us started–and has a lot of courage–but doesn’t go all the way back to the New Testament; He doesn’t jump past the creeds, councils, and doctrines that had already evolved; Luther assumed that all the creeds and councils were right–he didn’t do a full restoration in the New Testament; Zwingli was more concerned with Scripture than with tradition; John Calvin takes Zwingli’s ideas and pushes them forward

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Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: The Protestant Reformation
Date: 4/14/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Seven sacraments developed over time: baptism, confirmation, penance, Eucharist, marriage, ordination, extreme unction; Martin Luther threw them all away except for two: baptism and Eucharist (Lord’s Supper); Transubstantiation vs. Consubstantiation; Luther said that everyone should partake of the juice and of the bread, not just priests; Luther kicks off the Protestant Reformation; Ulrich Zwingli – Reformation leader in Switzerland; 4 main branches in Protestant Movement: Lutheranism (Luther), Reformed theology (Calvin/Zwingli), Anabaptists, and Anglicanism (Church of England)

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Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: The Protestant Reformation
Date: 4/14/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Justification by faith; “Scripture alone”; Luther rejects the authority of the Pope; The priesthood of all believers; The Eucharist–Lord’s Supper; Transubstantiation; Earthly priests; Luther says we can all ask forgiveness from God and we don’t need someone else to stand in between us

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Rodney Shaw

Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: The Protestant Reformation
Date: 4/14/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: October 31, 1517 – Martin Luther’s “Ninety-Five Theses“; Start of Protestant Reformation; Luther went against the theological understandings and the cash cow of the Church; Romans; Justification by faith; Luther’s intention was to reform the Catholic Church; Elevation of Scripture as our sole authority (”sola scriptura” – “Scripture alone”); Reformers didn’t go to the full extent of embracing “Scripture alone”; The average person didn’t own a Bible and couldn’t read

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Rodney Shaw

Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: The Protestant Reformation
Date: 4/14/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Martin Luther; The Bible; The average person never saw a Bible; Printing press; Protestant Reformation; Trip to Rome; Corruption in the Church; Romans 1:17 – “For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.”; We are saved by faith, not by works; Cornerstone of Luther’s theology

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Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: The Protestant Reformation
Date: 4/14/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Precursors to the Reformation; The Inquisition; Waldensians; Albigensians; An attempt to stamp out “heresy” (wrong belief); Church and state were intermingled; Church had the authority to marshal armies; Pope Innocent III ordered the execution of 20,000 men, women, and children; Spanish Inquisition burned 2,000 people at the stake; Corruption in the clergy; Economic abuses; Taxes; Absenteeism; Simony; Indulgences

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Rodney Shaw

Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: The Protestant Reformation
Date: 4/14/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Church history; Councils and creeds; Evolution of doctrine; Protestant Reformation; Progression in Christianity; Belief system evolving over time; Vocabulary and beliefs in the 4th Century different than that of the New Testament; Evolution of doctrine continues for several centuries until the time of the Reformation; Reforms were an attempt to revert back to earlier teachings and to get rid of intervening, unbiblical doctrines; Luther; Waldensians; Albigensians; Push-back against the Catholic Church; Persecution

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Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Claims of Orthodoxy: Who Is Right?
Date: 4/7/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: If my belief and experience is not consistent with what the apostles taught, believed, and experienced… on what authority can I change the normative experience that’s declared in the Bible?; Orthodoxy; No higher authority than the Word of God; Cultural influence/style vs. fundamental beliefs/experience; Conversion; Worship; Expression; Traditions; Doctrine; Primary affirmations of the Bible: What does it say about God, humanity, conversion, the Christian life, eternity?; Whatever we believe has to be directly affirmed from the New Testament

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Rodney Shaw

Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Claims of Orthodoxy: Who Is Right?
Date: 4/7/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Our experience with God is rooted on a particular set of beliefs; It is a biblical belief system that leads us to a biblical experience, that causes us to live our life in a way that’s reflected in the Bible; Our appeal to apostolic succession is that the Bible is the ultimate authority, not Nicaea, Chalcedon, or tradition; Our connection to the apostles is based on their writings alone; We have to ask ourselves, “Is what I’m experiencing consistent with what was experienced in the Scriptures?”

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Rodney Shaw

Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Claims of Orthodoxy: Who Is Right?
Date: 4/7/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Doctrinal apostolic succession – emulating the teachings of the apostles; New Testament; Orthodoxy–right belief; Medieval era; John Calvin; Servetus; Orthopraxy–right actions; Orthopathy–right experience; For Pentecostals, it’s all of these–the right belief will lead you to the right experience, and the right experience will lead you to doing the right things

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Rodney Shaw

Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Claims of Orthodoxy: Who Is Right?
Date: 4/7/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Claims of apostolic succession; Orthodoxy; The apostles left behind: writings, churches, and ministers; Three possible kinds of apostolic succession: ecclesiastical (churches), episcopal (bishops), and doctrinal (teachings)

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Rodney Shaw

Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Claims of Orthodoxy: Who Is Right?
Date: 4/7/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Doctrine of papal supremacy; Constantine; Political power struggles; The Vatican is its own state; Clerical celibacy; Veneration of Mary; Merit; Simony; Indulgences; Christianity in the West; Over time these things begin to happen in the Church

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Rodney Shaw

Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Claims of Orthodoxy: Who Is Right?
Date: 4/7/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Baptism changes–baptizing babies who can’t repent or make confessions of faith; Sacraments; Confirmation; Baptism of water and Spirit; Tradition; Penance; The Eucharist–Lord’s Supper; Marriage and ordination; Extreme Unction–last rites

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Rodney Shaw

Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Claims of Orthodoxy: Who Is Right?
Date: 4/7/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Significant split in Christianity in 1054 (Orthodox and Catholic Churches); When struggles occur, the views that prevail out of those struggles are not always consistent with the New Testament; Doctrine begins to change; Catholic Church (Western Church); Baptism; The earliest forms of baptism were invoking the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and full submersion in water; Baptizing invoking the name of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost is the consequence of the theological councils; Sprinkling and pouring also became the preferred method of baptism; Gradual migration away from submersion

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Rodney Shaw

Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Claims of Orthodoxy: Who Is Right?
Date: 4/7/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Struggle over the identity of Jesus Christ–the apostles had it figured out; Secular philosophy and other religious ideas creep into the church; Church becomes divided among itself, calls major councils to define who Jesus Christ is; First Council of Nicaea; Council of Chalcedon; Classic trinitarian dogma; Language that was used to speak of the Godhead, Jesus Christ, and the Incarnation was not language of revelation (biblical language)… it came from Greek philosophy of the day; Christianity with a layer of Greek philosophy; Vocabularies superimposed on Christianity–fundamentally altered the understanding of things like the Godhead and who Jesus Christ is; Major church split in 1054; The East becomes the Orthodox Church (Greek speaking), the West becomes the Roman Catholic Church (Latin speaking)

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Rodney Shaw

Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Claims of Orthodoxy: Who Is Right?
Date: 4/7/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Gnosticism; 4th Century; Council of Nicaea; The identity/deity of Jesus Christ; The Roman emperor Constantine is the one who called the Council of Nicaea together; Constantine embraced Christianity for political purposes only; Council of Constantinople; Council of Ephesus; Second Council of Ephesus; Council of Chalcedon; Christ is two natures (human and divine) but in one person

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At some point I will give my testimony about this in great detail, but for now I hope you’ll join me in this ongoing series by Pastor Rodney Shaw, as he answers the question “Why I am a Pentecostal“…

[Part 1 of an ongoing series]

Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Claims of Orthodoxy: Who Is Right?
Date: 4/7/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: There have always been struggles about Christian doctrine; Jude 1:3 – “contend for the faith that was once delivered…“; Themes in the epistles: eschatology, soteriology, christology, pastoral issues; Even in the New Testament there is a struggle over what is “true” Christianity–it is an age-old struggle

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Rodney Shaw

Show: The Jesse Woodrow Show
Full Podcast: The Revival of EUROPE in the BIBLE?
Date: 3/1/10
Host: Jesse Woodrow
Topics: “Exposing the Intersection of Tradition vs. Truth“; “Don’t Lie to Me“; Europe; Catholic church; Antichrist; False prophet; Doctrine; Traditions; The hijacking of Christianity; Holy Roman Empire; Revival; 800 A.D.; Global economic monitoring; IMF; One-world currency; Power shift to Europe; Pope Leo III; Charlemagne; Jesus Christ

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Jesse Woodrow

Show: The Jesse Woodrow Show
Full Podcast: Ash Wednesday is SO PAGAN YO
Date: 2/17/10
Host: Jesse Woodrow
Topics: Pagan origins of Catholic church; Ash Wednesday; Rosary beads; Roman Catholic system; Christianity; Emperor Constantine; Pagan rituals/symbols; Deception; “Exposing the Intersection of Tradition vs. Truth“; Herman Van Rompuy; Tony Blair; 1 Timothy 3:16-4:6; Lent; Tradition; Compromise; Truth

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[Part 1 of a 7-Part series]

Show: The Jesse Woodrow Show
Full Podcast: Ash Wednesday is SO PAGAN YO
Date: 2/17/10
Host: Jesse Woodrow
Topics: Roman Catholic Church; Ash Wednesday; “Daughters” of the Catholic Church; “Exposing the Intersection of Tradition vs. Truth“; Major doctrine introduced in 325 A.D.–the Devil hijacked Christianity; Lent; You may be a part of a daughter church and not even know it; The tradition of Lent has extensive pagan roots; Seek truth, not tradition; Tradition is a fire, it is alive and well; Worship God in spirit and in truth; Ash Wednesday was not taught by the disciples; Nowhere in the Bible does it say to put ashes on your face

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[Part 7 of a 7-Part series]

Show: Nowhere to Run
Full Podcast: The 2012 Deception – What it is and Why it’s Important
Date: 11/24/09
Host: Chris White
Topics: The Antichrist will have to convince the world that Christians must be systematically eliminated in the new utopia; Luke 10:19-20; The Bible talks about this final world system killing Christians by the millions for not worshiping this false christ; How could a world that pretends to be so moral acquiesce to such a brutal genocide?–It won’t be the same world; It’s only Christianity that has been specifically warned about this scenario, and it will serve as yet another reason they will be made the public’s number one enemy; The world will be told that this resistance to the new utopia is because Christians are the “old system” and that they are holding everyone back from the evolution that the world deserves; Matthew 24:23-24

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“And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.“

- Acts 4:12 (ESV)

[Part 3 of a 3-Part series]

Show: Preemption Broadcast
Full Podcast: THE GENETICS OF THE INCARNATION….changes everything
Date: 12/20/09
Host: Russ Dizdar
Topics: Don’t be pushed into being silent about Christ, the incarnation, the angels that declared good news of great joy, and God’s favor to mankind; Don’t be silent about the most incredible, supernatural event in human history; We need to be proclaiming the prophecies about Christ’s coming… they blow Nostradamus, Edgar Cayce and all the rest out of the water because they were always accurate and there’s more of them (almost 300 prior to the appearance of “Logos” Christ in human flesh); Don’t be silent, celebrate Christ, talk about Jesus; We tell children not just the story, but the historic reality of God’s visitation in this world; We get to tell them of the birth of God in human flesh, of how it occurred, and take them to the Scriptures and show them; Don’t let the world get in the way of celebrating, announcing, and being a witness for Jesus Christ; There is eternal, saving power in the name of Jesus

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[Part 2 of a 3-Part series]

Show: P.I.D. Radio
Full Podcast: P.I.D. Radio 11/29/09: The Manhattan Declaration
Date: 11/29/09
Hosts: Derek Gilbert, Sharon Gilbert
Topics: It would be impossible to sterilize our lives of all things related to paganism–how far do you take that?; The wedding rings on our fingers, the days of the week, the names of the month, and most of what we say and do, are all somehow rooted in pagan practices; We are soaking in it–we are living in a fallen world governed by the god of this world (that’s what Jesus called the enemy); As Paul did on Mars Hill, start where they are… use the pagan symbols as an opportunity to spread the love of Christ and the gospel; Let’s not confuse our cultural Christianity with biblical Christianity; We need to pick our battles–the enemy loves it when we get all wrapped up in it because it is a great distraction; It’s no different than it was 2,000 years ago–the Truth has been twisted from the very foundation of the world

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Show: Nowhere to Run
Full Podcast: The 2012 Deception – What it is and Why it’s Important
Date: 11/24/09
Host: Chris White
Topics: David Icke; Consciousness shift; Spiritual transformation; New human evolution; The old system must become the enemy in order for the new system to be birthed; Icke, Michael Tsarion, David Wilcock, and others consistently connect the New World Order to Christianity; This is a central concept to 2012 enlightenment theories; They use the pagan practices of the Roman Catholic Church and say “that’s Christianity”, when those practices have nothing to do with biblical Christianity; The concept that religions are the enemy (and the problem with the world) is a consistent theme that is almost always present with 2012 enlightenment theories

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[Part 1 of a 2-Part series]

Show: Future Quake
Full Podcast: The Spiritual Nature Of The New World Order And Their Plans, And The Duty For Christians To Confront It
Date: 11/30/09
Hosts: Dr. Future & Tom Bionic
Guest: Alex Jones
Topics: World Council of Churches; United Nations; International Institute of Integral Human Sciences starting a new religion called the Order of the Transfiguration; Slogan is that they are serving as a “‘mid-wife’ of a New Humanity in a New World Order”; Teaching spirit communications, channeling, conjuring the dead, etc.; Opening portals to contact the spirit world and let them out; The only people they can’t tolerate are those who take the Bible literally; Earth First Battalion; Maurice Strong; They say every religion is good except for true Christianity; “Christians” will be burning real Christians at the stake; True Christianity is the real McCoy, that’s why the entire world is set against it; Revelation 18 – Babylon the great city… where they traffic in the “souls of men”

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“I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.” (John 16:33)

“So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.” (2 Corinthians 4:16-18)

[Part 6 in a 6-part series]

Show: Prewrath Radio Online
Full Podcast: Fighting is Not an Option During the Great Tribulation
Date: 8/31/09
Host: Charles Cooper
Topics: The spirit of injustice will be almost unbearable; The level of abuse and persecution will be unparalleled and there will be no remedy; That’s when we have to depend on our God; Some generation of believers will have to face this, and the church is doing absolutely nothing to get people ready–we must be ready; Fighting simply is not an option; We have not been given a spirit of fear; The will of God be done

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Show: The Jesse Woodrow Show
Full Podcast: Interview with Rev. Randy Bush
Date: 9/22/09
Host: Jesse Woodrow
Guest: Reverend Randy Bush
Topics: Do Christians, Muslims, and Jews all go to the same heaven?; How do you define “heaven”?; Jesus Christ is the only way–you have to be born again, like Jesus said; The ecumenical movement is bringing Protestants and Catholics back together again; Catholic Catechism #841 – Does the plan of salvation include Muslims? Is Abraham the cornerstone?; Jesus said there is a broad road that leads to death, but narrow is the gate…; The false prophet will bring all faiths together; “Decoding” the Book of Revelation

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Part 2 in a 3-part series.

Show: The Jesse Woodrow Show
Full Podcast: Interview with Rev. Randy Bush
Date: 9/22/09
Host: Jesse Woodrow
Guest: Reverend Randy Bush
Topics: Do Muslims, Christians, and Jews all go to the same heaven?; The definition of “Heaven” and the “Kingdom of God”; The Book of Revelation; How does one enter into the Kingdom of Heaven?; Do you have to believe in the deity of Jesus?; The importance of having an open dialogue with people we don’t agree with; Is it doing God a disservice to not be honest about Jesus being the way, the only truth, and the only life?

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“Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them. Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep. Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight. Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all. If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all. Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, ‘Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.‘ To the contrary, ‘if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.’ Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.” (ESV)

What more is there to say?

[This is Part 3 in a 3-part series...]

Show: The Jesse Woodrow Show
Date: 9/8/09
Host: Jesse Woodrow
Topics: More audio clips from Steven Anderson’s interview with Alex Jones; Anderson says he’s praying that Obama dies for the “greater good”; It was an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, but Jesus changed the whole thing around; There was an Old Covenant, but now there is a New Covenant–Jesus said not to do those things anymore, but instead to bless them, to pray for them; Steven Anderson just helped the Homeland Security assessment sheet to become true–this is exactly the problem; Bless and curse not… Romans 12:14-21; Anderson’s words/actions are exactly why people think Christians are nuts; This will be used against believers who really are doing what God wants us to do; What Anderson said and did was abominable and has nothing to do with the Bible; Anderson should be praying for Obama’s salvation, not his death

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* sarcasm intended

Show: Future Quake
Full Podcast: Evangelical Christianity “On The Couch” – A Spiritual And Mental Health Assessment
Date: 8/10/09
Hosts: Dr. Future & Tom Bionic
Guest: Mark Breton
Topics: Fake Christianity/hypocrisy is a soul killer; Torture and the death penalty; How can you share the love of Christ with someone you are torturing or killing?

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