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The Reformation Period: Lessons from Church History

Explore the Reformation Period and learn valuable lessons from the attempts to reform the Catholic Church. Discover how man-made doctrines and practices were substituted and the sacrifices made in the pursuit of religious reformation.

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The Reformation Period: Lessons from Church History

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  1. To download a copyof today’s lesson go toTheGoodTeacher.comand click on “Gospel Meetings”

  2. The Lord’s ChurchThrough the Ages Part 4 The Reformation Period

  3. The Lord’s Church Through the AgesWhere Are We?

  4. Why This Study? • A study of history is profitable for learning valuable lessons (1 Corinthians 10:11-12) • We find that many people were dissatisfied and disgruntled with the Catholic Church and attempted to reform it. • We will learn that in an attempt to reform the Catholic Church many substituted their own man-made doctrines and practices in place of those of the Catholic Church.

  5. Why This Study? • We will learn that in an attempt to reform the Catholic Church many went from one extreme (salvation by works in the Catholic Church) to another extreme (salvation by faith alone in the Protestant Churches). • We will learn the great sacrifices that were made to undertake a reformation of religion.

  6. Understanding Some Terms • “Renaissance” means new birth or revival and refers to the renewed interest and revival of learning (A.D. 1350 – 1550) • “Protestant” refers to a movement from individuals within the Catholic Church (former priests, etc.) “protesting” the errors and abuses of the Catholic Church • “Reformation” refers to the movement, not to “overthrow”, but “reform” the existing order (the Catholic Church) enough to correct its errors and abuses

  7. Pre-Reformation History • The great captivity of the Catholic Church • The great schism within the Catholic Church • The great captivity of the Eastern Orthodox Church • The great inquisition of the Catholic Church

  8. The Beginning of Reformation • The Preparation for Reformation: learning, the printing press, nationalism • The Beginnings of Reformation: Wycliff, Huss, Wessel, Savonarola • The Catholic Counter-Reformation

  9. The Formal Reformation • The German Reformation: Luther and Melanchthon • The Swiss Reformation: Zwingli and Calvin • The English Reformation: Tyndale and King Henry

  10. Protestant Churches of the Reformation

  11. Catholicism Replaced by Protestantism

  12. Lessons Learned • Reading the scriptures for yourself will lead you out of the darkness of ignorance and error into the light of truth (Jn. 8:32; 17:17; Eph. 5:17) • The need for restoration, not merely reformation (Isa. 8:20; Jer. 6:16)

  13. Lessons Learned • Reformation leaders taught erroneous doctrines… Luther’s demand for what is forbidden in scripture: “Thou shall not…” (compare with Col. 3:17; 2 Jn. 9) Luther’s salvation by faith alone (compare with Jas. 2:24-26) Calvin’s doctrine of TULIP (compare with Ezek. 18:20; Eph. 1:3-6; 1 Tim. 2:6; Acts 7:51; Gal. 5:4)

  14. The Lord’s Church Through the Ages • Let us not simply reform abuses in religion, but go back and restore the New Testament church (Lk. 8:11; Acts 11:26; Eph. 4:4-6) • Let us not leave one man-made Church to form another man-made Church (Mt. 15:13) • Let us be the faithful remnant of the Lord’s church today (1 K. 19:18; Rev. 3:4)

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