[Part 49 of an ongoing series. Click here for Part 1.]
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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