Waking Jonah

[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

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Rodney Shaw

[Part 36 of an ongoing series]

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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Rodney Shaw

[Part 32 of an ongoing series]

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

[Part 31 of an ongoing series]

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

[Part 30 of an ongoing series]

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

[Part 21 of an ongoing series]

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

[Part 20 of an ongoing series]

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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