Waking Jonah

[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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Rodney Shaw

[Part 19 of an ongoing series]

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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Rodney Shaw

[Part 18 of an ongoing series]

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

[Part 17 of an ongoing series]

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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Rodney Shaw

[Part 16 of an ongoing series]

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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Rodney Shaw

[Part 15 of an ongoing series]

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

[Part 14 of an ongoing series]

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

[Part 13 of an ongoing series]

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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Rodney Shaw

[Part 12 of an ongoing series]

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

[Part 11 of an ongoing series]

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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