[Part 51 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: 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
[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: 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
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: 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
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 – 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
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
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)
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
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
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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